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What’s your experience and pay? I’m 5 years and $130k. Same deal.

• elindbe3 6y ago
  About the same
• shoo 6y ago
  Those conditions & pay for a software engineer with similar experience seem comparable (after currency conversion between USD & AUD) to working a large bank in one of australia's major cities > We get 4 weeks of vacation, health insurance, 4 months parental leave, and other benefits As any permanent full time employee in Australia working for any employer, you'd get a minimum of 2 weeks of public holidays (depends on state), 20 days of annual leave, 10 days of personal leave (carer's & sick leave), and 12 months parental leave. There's health insurance funded through the public system decoupled from employment. Compared to US this probably seems relatively socialist, compared to europe things are relatively neoliberal.
  • randomopining 6y ago
    So you’d get 130k USD? And what’s the tax rate? Pretty solid.
    • shoo 6y ago
      130k USD is currently about 170k AUD. That'd include base salary plus a mandatory employer contribution of 9.5% to a tax advantaged retirement fund (Australia's "superannuation" scheme). Excluding retirement fund contribution, equivalent base salary would be around 155k AUD. That'd be subject to roughly 29% total income tax. There are no additional state level income taxes . So you'd end up with around 110k AUD cash. A single person who rents & shares a place can cover all baseline living expenses on a quarter of that.