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by IggleSniggle 1784 days ago
Dev says right at the top of the entry that they are writing from Romania. Quick Google shows an average software dev salary of 4800 USD per year. If that’s average, seems like 7x monthly of a junior salary checks out.
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The minimum net salary in Romania is about €280, which is about $360, which is about $500 net. So $6000 per year net. And no (u abused) junior dev is going to be making minimum salary, that's janitor salary.
> The minimum net salary in Romania is about €280, which is about $360, which is about $500 net.

This looks like you double-converted, and and also at an exceptionally high exchange rate.

And besides, we should probably be comparing euros directly to Apple's prices in euros, which, best I can tell, are in fact bigger numbers than their USD prices—the baseline offerings are listed at €1,449 and €1,679 (vs $1,299 and $1,499), and I can get the configurator up to €2,599, which puts us at a €370 monthly junior dev salary.

$500 gross. $6000 gross. "u abused" should be "excluding a very small percentage abused by their employers".

And Romania has a fixed 10% tax rate so the higher you go, the more you benefit from it. So IT folks keep a lot of their salary.

It's about 1500 USD/month which comes out around 18K/year