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I am not sure how things work in US but, living in an Eastern European country, I can say that salaries started growing, almost reaching western european levels
by DeathArrow 2y ago
I am not sure how things work in US but, living in an Eastern European country, I can say that salaries started growing, almost reaching western european levels, after which many foreign companies closed offices and moved to cheaper countries like India and Pakistan.
- brutus1213 2y agoThat's pretty weird. Usually, less companies mean less demand for labor. If supply is the same, that means price-for-labor (salaries) would go down. Unless, this was accompanied by people leaving (reduction in supply). Do you have an explanation for this?
- DeathArrow 2y agoThe salaries were growing. After that, some companies left for countries where they found cheaper labor.
- aprilthird2021 2y agoIndia salaries are growing too. The top end of Indian devs get paid more, in India, than many US devs at the lower / medium end
- ido 2y agoWhere in Eastern Europe? At least from my perspective (I've done hiring at several companies, albeit just hiring individual remote workers rather than open a local office) developers in Poland and Czechia are still very competitively priced (less expensive than north/western Europe and A LOT less expensive than the US).
- red-iron-pine 2y agono one is moving to Pakistan
- aprilthird2021 2y agoIt's a pretty common place to get outsourced devs from. But it doesn't have the conglomerate offices like India, so you have to do more to get a team from there. The people are basically the same so same level education, same-ish salaries, same English understanding, etc.