> less than you’d make at Google or Facebook, but a decent civil-service salary. Wait, which country has that? It's a running joke here in Germany that every e

> less than you’d make at Google or Facebook, but a decent civil-service salary. Wait, which country has that? It's a running joke here in Germany that every entry level developer job pays about as much as doing anything IT-related at the state/communal level. Oh wait, maybe it's because it's IT and not servicing fax machines. *disclaimer: FAANG levels of pay are relatively rare here, I'd say developers in general make less than 100k. For every civic-service position I have ever looked up randomly it's more like capped at 60-80k at the team lead/middle management level.