[austhrwy]

I make 165kAUD+ super, typical web dev full stack role. This is high for Sydney but some companies here are smart enough to throw an extra 30k into the offer to make sure they build a good team. To get to this from 100k a few years ago I just realised you increase your standard and wait longer to get a job.

OTOH this salary doesn’t go far in terms of lifestyle in Sydney. It is expensive, it’s probably enough to live off but I’m not sticking half my salary into the stock market like you American developer like to do.

200k US in Sydney means either get great at kernel level code or multithreaded c++ and help the poker players make more money from the stock market. Or forget technical and become a senior scrum master or project manager for CBA. I think rural doctors and phsyciatrists rake it in, and geologists during the next mining boom. Install air conditioning is another way or any kind of trade where the labour component can be marked up extortionately and where some “tax planning” can be utilised.