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Did software engineer salaries reflect the ~3x higher costs? Or was there simply less volume of sales -> lower salary?

• tluyben2 7y ago
  At that time, software engineers were (at least where I live) almost exclusively uni physics and math grads. I would not say 3x (some more some less) but they were well paid. Anecdotal; I started out with the same freelance rate, in numbers, per hour in the 80s as I have now; so that misses all inflation and the change of our currency to euro. So I make (if I would work as a freelance software engineer, which I usually do not anymore) vastly less than I did then for the same work.
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  • tonyedgecombe 7y ago
    Yes, when I look at my contract rates in the nineties they look similar to what I'd expect today in the UK. I guess all that outsourcing and cheap imported labour had the desired effect.