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In a game theoretic way it would be more beneficial if we all align our compensation demands to US salaries, independently of location, and in your case you get
by jobigoud 8y ago
In a game theoretic way it would be more beneficial if we all align our compensation demands to US salaries, independently of location, and in your case you get 4x above local shop salaries.
- ForHackernews 8y agoYes absolutely. At the very least, workers at offshore divisions of the SV giants (e.g. Facebook London) should be demanding compensation to match their Bay Area colleagues.
- granshaw 8y agoI’m curious, how far off are they today?
- ForHackernews 8y agoIt seems like there can be a >100,000USD difference in total compensation. Take it with a grain of salt, but there's some self-reported numbers at https://www.levels.fyi https://www.levels.fyi If you click on an individual position, you can filter reports by location. If I were a SWE working for Google/Facebook/Uber in London, I'd be irked.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoYou're absolutely right, and thanks for pointing this out!
- matz1 8y agoThat would require you to convince all other worker to do the same, which is I don't think is feasible.
- tracker1 8y agoDepends on your location though... A senior developer in some areas in the U.S. will be under $80k/year, in SF/SV it could be over $240k/year. Which is already a lot of variance (3X). In the end, I chose to live in a city where even local development jobs are at the higher end of the pay range in the area (top 5-8%) and better ratio to the cost of living for the area compared to say SF/SV and other places where the lower income for dev is closer to median (20-30% position). It depends on a lot of things, and it's always negotiation. In the end, know what others are making as best as you can and ask for 10% more than you think you may get. In the end, you may lose 75% of the opportunities, but you only need 1 job at a time.