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Ok ouch that is a drastic cut, and must be hard to deal with if you have set up your life based on $180k income. Just for comparison, $180k would be out of ran
by quickthrower2 3y ago
Ok ouch that is a drastic cut, and must be hard to deal with if you have set up your life based on $180k income.
Just for comparison, $180k would be out of range for anyone outside the US, unless in High Frequency Trading, managing a team of > 200 people, or working for a hot AI startup, Crypto or similar. It is quiet exceptional.
I say this as someone who is, compared to East Europe, Indonesia, Cuba, India, etc, earning a high salary. Same thing could happen to me quite easily if I am out of a job and looking again. It is scary.
- irrational 3y ago$180k? I never worked FAANG, but my understanding is the jobs were in the $250k+ range. I have a sister in law that works for oracle cloud computing and pulls in $350k.
- standardUser 3y agoMost tech jobs are not FAANG or similarly massive, super profitable goliaths. It's something we should all remember all the time. Most tech workers are second rate staff working for [name any big company that is not primarily a tech company]. Examples on the far end of the extremes only serve to skew our perspectives, unless we remind ourselves these are the extremes, not the norm.
- twodave 3y agoIt’s also out of range for most people outside of SV. There are definitely jobs paying $180k where I am (Southeast US), but they aren’t anywhere near entry-level and also aren’t abundant.
- JenrHywy 3y ago> Just for comparison, $180k would be out of range for anyone outside the US I don't think it's too far off the mark for Australia. Mind you, that's gross. US$180 is about AU$280k. Of that, you'd pay around AU$100k in income tax (and then there's a 10% sales tax).