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Without knowing where the users are based, this data alone is pretty meaningless. Where I'm from in South West England pretty much all the programming jobs are

Without knowing where the users are based, this data alone is pretty meaningless. Where I'm from in South West England pretty much all the programming jobs are Java (hence why I left), and you are lucky to get £40k. Spain and Portugal have even lower salaries. I'm guessing this is US based, but even then, I'm sure there is a lot of variation. Working in London as a Java developer in finance you could easily get over £100k.

CmonDev 13y ago
Agreed. Working as a Haskell/Erlang dev in finance would get you well over £100k as well. Scarcity of such positions is a different matter though.
rplnt 13y ago
And you can be based in post-soviet ("happy" 45th anniversary to crushing Czechoslovakia's future) country, make $10k or $20k and be very happy.
- lucaspiller 13y ago
  Personal experience? My SO is Lithuanian, so I would be interested to know what working in that area is like.
  - berntb 13y ago
    I can tell you that you live really well for quite few Euro after tax in Transylvania (as long as you don't go to West Europe for vacation). This is quite easy to check, Google: living costs Cluj London http://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/comparison/london/cluj-napoca http://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/comparison/london/c... (Don't trust information about cities with too few data points.)
    - rplnt 13y ago
      The only downside is that the prices of imported goods (most notably electronics) and software are usually higher than in the US for example. Services are much cheaper of course.
canadiancreed 13y ago
I'll second this. I've yet to ever see any PHP job short of architect paying that amount here (most are 70k or less), same with Java and Perl. I'd like to know where this was collected from....I need to move there.
- fps 13y ago
  I feel the opposite. I can't get anyone that knows puppet for under $110k in the Boston area. All these salaries seem low for Boston, and probably the bay area as well.
  - canadiancreed 13y ago
    Geeze I need to move there....somehow.
  - druiid 13y ago
    That is... crazy high it seems like to me! Heck, I'd do it for less than $110k!
cpncrunch 13y ago
Check out contract jobs, which tend to pay higher in the UK.
mamcx 13y ago
I wish in Colombia to be like that. Here, the normal is something like US 800/month/Full time.

CmonDev 13y ago

Agreed. Working as a Haskell/Erlang dev in finance would get you well over £100k as well. Scarcity of such positions is a different matter though.

rplnt 13y ago

And you can be based in post-soviet ("happy" 45th anniversary to crushing Czechoslovakia's future) country, make $10k or $20k and be very happy.

lucaspiller 13y ago
Personal experience? My SO is Lithuanian, so I would be interested to know what working in that area is like.
- berntb 13y ago
  I can tell you that you live really well for quite few Euro after tax in Transylvania (as long as you don't go to West Europe for vacation). This is quite easy to check, Google: living costs Cluj London http://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/comparison/london/cluj-napoca http://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/comparison/london/c... (Don't trust information about cities with too few data points.)
  - rplnt 13y ago
    The only downside is that the prices of imported goods (most notably electronics) and software are usually higher than in the US for example. Services are much cheaper of course.

canadiancreed 13y ago

I'll second this. I've yet to ever see any PHP job short of architect paying that amount here (most are 70k or less), same with Java and Perl. I'd like to know where this was collected from....I need to move there.

fps 13y ago
I feel the opposite. I can't get anyone that knows puppet for under $110k in the Boston area. All these salaries seem low for Boston, and probably the bay area as well.
- canadiancreed 13y ago
  Geeze I need to move there....somehow.
- druiid 13y ago
  That is... crazy high it seems like to me! Heck, I'd do it for less than $110k!

cpncrunch 13y ago

Check out contract jobs, which tend to pay higher in the UK.

mamcx 13y ago

I wish in Colombia to be like that. Here, the normal is something like US 800/month/Full time.