That's the point that I'm trying to get across. Don't assume that your experience applies across the board and everyone can spare double digits of their salary.

That's the point that I'm trying to get across. Don't assume that your experience applies across the board and everyone can spare double digits of their salary. Depending on where you live and how much you make, 100% of your software salary might be just getting you to having an okay-ish standard of living with not much to spare. So giving up 20% of it doesn't sound appealing. And that's on top of the question about life-sitation and priorities. > Maybe if you have 2 kids and a mortgage but that's not me Not you but many people are in that situation. And you're sending their companies emails about how they should reduce their pay by 20%.