• GBU_28@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Where are “programmers” making less than 75k in the west?

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        2 months ago

        You work on the internet, my God

        Half our team is from Spain and we pay us wages.

        Don’t be silly, market abroad

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          No, you don’t pay us wages. You adjust for local CoL like every company on earth, or you wouldn’t hire in Spain.

          Even in a fantasy world where your company is a unique snowflake that pays 150k a year independent of location, those are a dozen jobs for a country of 50 million people.

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            2 months ago

            As a note, my company, a fortune 50 company, does not adjust for cost of living. They adjust to cost of labor.

            So if they were to magically hire overseas (not a thing they do), they would pay people from Spain average Spanish wages for the industry.

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              Yep, that is actually the correct term, cost of labor. I work for a smaller one (NASDAQ 100) and they do hire remote and do adjust for cost of labor.

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            2 months ago

            Are you saying folks can’t hunt work overseas? These ludicrous. Of course taxes are paid

            Edit we don’t pay 150, but around 80 for junior

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          You’re probably talking about contractors and gross pay. That’s probably why people here are misunderstanding your statement.

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      In Germany it’s difficult to get past 75k.

      I current have 52k and they refuse to pay more after 4 years of experience.