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Yes, the whole premise is very US-centric.
by strzibny 5y ago
Yes, the whole premise is very US-centric.
- rl1987 5y agoI'm not American, but I think it might be even more narrow than that. Is it reasonable to expect six figure developer salaries if one is from outside small number of states with a lot of tech industry? What if one lives in Alaska?
- akvadrako 5y agoSeems like almost no SWE jobs in Alaska https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html?track=Software%20Engineer®ion=743 https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html?track=Software%20Engineer&r...
- memling 5y ago> Yes, the whole premise is very US-centric. It's actually even more localized than that: the vast majority of places in the US don't pay that much. Silicon Valley, NYC, and some other metros will have higher ranges, of course, and BigCorps can afford to pay it. But if you live in the Midwest or program for a company whose business isn't software—which is likely a healthy minority of software positions, if not a majority—you generally won't make that much.
- gyulai 5y agoWas just going to say the same thing. ...I might have phrased it in a snarky way like "Do overpayed SWEs in the U.S. realize just how lucky they were for having come out of an American vagina?" It's a good thing I don't have to do that now.
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- cosmodisk 5y ago300K salaries- yes, it's a US-only thing. However a lot of countries dev jobs are better paid than most. E.g in my own little country it's not unheard for seniors to make 5-7 times more than an average person in the country. That's still a huge difference.
- kyriakos 5y agoIt's really not US only phenomenon. The numbers are different in Europe but definitely higher than other professional jobs. Doctors earn more but software engineers usually earn at least x2 a country's average salary.