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Where's the mystery? Someone looks at what this guy did for his business card and, to paraphrase, says "Wow, look at this guy's skills. He must charge a very, v
by chucksmash 7y ago
Where's the mystery? Someone looks at what this guy did for his business card and, to paraphrase, says "Wow, look at this guy's skills. He must charge a very, very non-average amount of money for them."
Your response to this is "But actually, according to payscale.com, an average embedded software engineer only makes X."
1. Nobody likes but-actually posts.
2. Quoting average salary when someone is commenting on how non-average a guy's skillset is isn't really relevant.
- nl 7y agoI get the "but actually" thing, but I don't think it was that. The OP said the skills are "mindbogglingly expensive". From personal experience they aren't (I worked in a team with embedded engineers with similar skills to those required for this). I thought this was well understood - it's been discussed here a number of times. I added the average salaries after getting voted down to -2 and that turned around the voting. While there are a number of issues with average salaries I think it's notable that no one is claiming the opposite.