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I'm an HN reader who does not earn $100k+. In my view, very, very, very few programmers really deserve more than about $200k at most. If you're earning $100k+
by ajdlinux 9y ago
I'm an HN reader who does not earn $100k+.
In my view, very, very, very few programmers really deserve more than about $200k at most.
If you're earning $100k+ and you don't have children or extenuating circumstances such as disabilities that increase your non-discretionary expenditure, you're absolutely rich, and if you don't feel rich then you're either spending your money wrong or your benchmarks of wealth are waaaay off.
- UK-AL 9y ago"In my view, very, very, very few programmers really deserve more than about $200k at most." Why?
- ajdlinux 9y agoI can't say I have a particularly well reasoned argument for saying that. It's just my moral intuition. I definitely can say that I don't think that a person's wealth and well-being should be determined by "value to the market". (FWIW I also come from a public service town, where very intelligent and talented people lead decently upper-middle-class lives, but salaries top out well below where one could get in the private sector.)
- JoeAltmaier 9y agoIt doesn't work like that. You don't get what you're 'worth'. You get what you negotiate. Its a market, your skills are for sale, you have to make a good deal.
- ajdlinux 9y agoYep. I know how the market works. something something ~capitalism~
- _pmf_ 9y agoOutside the US, they won't. Working at Daimler for 10 years, you don't clear 80000 EUR if not moving in a managerial tier, and even then you'll have to move quite far up. (Starting nowadays, you'll have 50000 EUR starting salary as a junior developer.) And this is before taxes; even with 2 children, I'll pay upwards of 40 percent income tax in addition to 19 percent mandatory health insurance. SV is a fantasy world.