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I disagree that anything below the "top dollar" is peanuts. I would consider even a fraction of what big tech pays to be fair enough. Thanks to scarcity we can

• ChuckNorris89 5y ago
  >I would consider even a fraction of what big tech pays to be fair enough. Thanks to scarcity we can ask for more. Maybe in the US and Berlin/London/Amsterdam that holds true where VC money is constantly raining from the sky keeping the demand higher than the labor supply, but in most of west EU, outside of big tech, the pay of most IT & dev jobs are in line with all other office work grunts. I wouldn't consider the 50K for mid levels and 80K for seniors, a dev salary to write home about in a high CoL EU country. Making the labor pool bigger will not improve the wages.
  • yreg 5y ago
    My point is it's not peanuts either.
    • ChuckNorris89 5y ago
      I know this can sound very first world problem in the current context, but peanuts is always relative to how much things cost in your environment and how much the purchasing power of everyone else is. If every office worker earns as much as every dev then devs do earn peanuts. Devs in the US and other regions have the unique advantage of earning far more then the median in that area, therefore not peanuts. Like how if you're earning on 80k in SF you're basically in poverty despite being in the 5% top earners globally.