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Wow this makes me glad to not be in Ireland. At best about ~50k a year in USD offered and you are surprised that people are not clamoring for this incredible op

Wow this makes me glad to not be in Ireland. At best about ~50k a year in USD offered and you are surprised that people are not clamoring for this incredible opportunity! New graduates in the states earn about 3 times that. Anyway hope you find someone for that price, what a bargain!

andrea_s 12y ago
No need for the snark - salaries in Europe are a different story compared to the USA (aside from Switzerland perhaps); you can find some data here: http://www.payscale.com/research/IE/Location=Dublin-Dublin/Salary http://www.payscale.com/research/IE/Location=Dublin-Dublin/S.... Of course, you are not the only one wondering what is going on with that: http://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-salary-range-of-software-professionals-in-Europe-considerably-lower-than-in-the-US http://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-salary-range-of-software-pro..., http://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-salary-of-software-engineering-jobs-in-the-US-double-that-in-the-UK http://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-salary-of-software-engineeri.... A salary of €40,000 results in a monthly take-home of about €2,540 (http://ie.thesalarycalculator.co.uk/salary.php http://ie.thesalarycalculator.co.uk/salary.php) - plus pension, which is a fairly good salary in a city like Dublin for a developer at the beginning of his career (of course you would starve in SF with the same money!).
- mrcold 12y ago
  You ask for 3 years experience in building software. That's not someone at the beginning of his career, it's mid-level. And a quick google search shows that the average for C# developers in Dublin is €45,000. So your competitive salary is actually below the market. Pay peanuts, get monkeys.
  - andrea_s 12y ago
    The point about the salary is valid - if we are looking for someone outstanding we should be prepared to spend outstanding money. I would contest the notion that a person who's been developing software for three years is in the middle of their career, though - even leaving the semantics aside, I see no way that's not a junior profile.
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andrea_s 12y ago

No need for the snark - salaries in Europe are a different story compared to the USA (aside from Switzerland perhaps); you can find some data here: http://www.payscale.com/research/IE/Location=Dublin-Dublin/Salary http://www.payscale.com/research/IE/Location=Dublin-Dublin/S.... Of course, you are not the only one wondering what is going on with that: http://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-salary-range-of-software-professionals-in-Europe-considerably-lower-than-in-the-US http://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-salary-range-of-software-pro..., http://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-salary-of-software-engineering-jobs-in-the-US-double-that-in-the-UK http://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-salary-of-software-engineeri.... A salary of €40,000 results in a monthly take-home of about €2,540 (http://ie.thesalarycalculator.co.uk/salary.php http://ie.thesalarycalculator.co.uk/salary.php) - plus pension, which is a fairly good salary in a city like Dublin for a developer at the beginning of his career (of course you would starve in SF with the same money!).

mrcold 12y ago
You ask for 3 years experience in building software. That's not someone at the beginning of his career, it's mid-level. And a quick google search shows that the average for C# developers in Dublin is €45,000. So your competitive salary is actually below the market. Pay peanuts, get monkeys.
- andrea_s 12y ago
  The point about the salary is valid - if we are looking for someone outstanding we should be prepared to spend outstanding money. I would contest the notion that a person who's been developing software for three years is in the middle of their career, though - even leaving the semantics aside, I see no way that's not a junior profile.
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