The moment you will get from US centric and Silicon Valley centric view, you will find out that programmers are paid fair wages but not eccentric 100-300k USD a

The moment you will get from US centric and Silicon Valley centric view, you will find out that programmers are paid fair wages but not eccentric 100-300k USD a year. For example embedded programmers in Eastern Europe have 30-60k USD wage a year. So it really depends what do you imagine under "lower pay"