[suryon]

3100 is almost double the average salary of IT worker in Central/Eastern Europe and these people are considered middle class.

Take a look at China and India there they earn even less.

How many and for how long can these companies keep hiring people for such huge salaries ? And if these people can't live comfortably off these salaries then there is something wrong.

[whyaduck]

Complex cross-geo projects aren't the same as local projects, except everything happens overnight. There are explicit and implicit expenses involved in managing and supporting projects in widely varied time zones that aren't obvious until you're involved in one. Especially if there's hardware involved.