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by sheepmullet
3222 days ago
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1) High end developers get paid a lot. Even in India and Russia. 2) As a rule of thumb consulting companies charge out at 3x wages. It usually is more expensive to outsource to the top end than it is to do it in house even in Seattle or SF. |
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> 2) As a rule of thumb consulting companies charge out at 3x wages.
This is backwards.
1) Consulting companies charge what they can get, which depends on what markets they've managed to penetrate, reputation, contract flow, etc as some markets are far better lubricated than others.
2) High end developers get paid a function of company budget and supply of talent, so in locations where budgets are more constrained, salaries will also be constrained. Your implication that "paid a lot" is a constant or near-constant is questionable.
There are lots of different datasets on this, no doubt none of them high enough quality, but they all indicate huge discrepancies, both on average and when stratified.
https://www.daxx.com/article/it-salaries-software-developer-...
Is it possible to make a 100:20 saving as the parent comment questioned? I don't know. Perhaps not. On the other hand US average programmer salary is over 4x the average programmer salary in China, so under the right circumstances it's not as ludicrous as perhaps presented.
I guess my point is that your premise that "high-end" developer salaries are near-constant around the globe is likely only true if you constrain yourseld to developers who are employed at agencies that compete globally against companies like Thoughtworks and have employed there long enough to have established seniority (remember experience is not synonymous with quality). That's quite a tight definition of "high end" in my opinion.