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Developers earn 250k USD/year in the US? Any reference to the european "brain dead"-problem?
by zepearl 8y ago
Developers earn 250k USD/year in the US?
Any reference to the european "brain dead"-problem?
- pm90 8y ago> european "brain dead" I'm guessing you mean brain drain. Or is there a Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease epidemic that I missed? : )
- zepearl 8y agohaha, thx, soooorry, I misread... :))
- freeone3000 8y agoYes. https://voxeu.org/article/european-brain-drain https://voxeu.org/article/european-brain-drain is fairly comprehensive, but the idea is that highly skilled people generally go where they're paid the most for their skills.
- kensai 8y agoThis is an 11-year old article and honestly total bullshit. European developers and professionals in general are quite happy with the welfare in Europe. It's a completely different mindset. Yes we earn much less, but at least if we can sick or fired we know we can get some decent support from the state.
- mruts 8y agoNot all of them, but engineering jobs with total comp >250k USD are not difficult to find at all.
- joncrane 8y agoAbsolutely. Many in Silicon Valley make much, much more as Individual Contributors.