3 ms·
"Pay is low in Europe" isn't really true. It's a statement based on the (very frequent, deliberate and problematic) conflation of the EU with Europe. Wages for
by thu2111 7y ago
"Pay is low in Europe" isn't really true. It's a statement based on the (very frequent, deliberate and problematic) conflation of the EU with Europe. Wages for programmers are pretty high in parts of the UK, Switzerland, and some other places. In provincial Germany or French classical engineering firms, yes sure, wages are much lower. But then developer wages outside of California are nothing special in the USA either.
- bsdubernerd 7y agoI'm not sure about California, but as I was interviewing for some positions in Zurich, the wage adjusted for cost of living in there, and excluding Google (which has a presence there), is also average. I lived in Paris for some years and the same was true. I have several friends scattered across Spain, Germany and France in several big cities and nobody is getting rich. Maybe I'm missing the cool working positions. I never ran any estimate for London since I never had an opportunity to work there.