[phpisthebest]

Sure but a decent salary is far different from "235k/year. (And consume another $100k/year in lobster, shrimp, smoothies, and snickers bars.)"

If You can't see that there is a middle ground between impoverished wages and what was quoted above that I can't help you

[traceroute66]

> If You can't see that there is a middle ground between ...

I can see a middle ground. Most people would probably name it as Europe. And you would have to go looking in Eastern Europe.

And I think you would find, if you are lucky, that a competent European junior-ish developer would not get out of bed for less than 60k Euros (65k USD), a more senior developer would demand more.

And you need more than one or two developers on your team if you're going to be competing against Adobe.

And then you need to pay taxes, pensions, accountants and lawyers.

And then you need to pay other business expenses.

And if you decide you need an office, then god help you ...

The numbers soon add up .... $235k will disappear within the year, probably within a single quarter.

Software development is capital intensive.

[mhitza]

> And I think you would find, if you are lucky, that a competent European junior-ish developer would not get out of bed for less than 60k Euros (65k USD), a more senior developer would demand more.

That's a very much extreme statement I think you confabulated. Take this developer median data from back in 2020 https://www.statista.com/statistics/1222324/developers-media... and reanalyze your statement.

And also compared to https://www.reinisfischer.com/average-monthly-salary-europea... where 60k euros a year tends to be above the average monthly salary in many EU countries. And if a junior doesn't get out of bed for less than that, well I have some bad news for them and their expectations.

[KeplerBoy]

Are you actually in Europe?

You won't get qualified devs for much less than 60k around here. Especially since that is the amount of money people expect on their payslips before taxes.

On top of that employers have to pay additional stuff, that won't even make it on the payslip, like parts of the health insurance which are not considered to be parts of the compensation.

Quick Example from Austria:

* Cost to Employer 77k€

* Employee's Taxable Income: 60k€

* Income After Taxes: 40k€

* Childcare and University: 0€

[mhitza]

> Are you actually in Europe?

I'm actually in Europe, and EU, but not Schengen (thank you Austria & Netherland governments for the veto vote).

> You won't get qualified devs for much less than 60k around here.

The ridiculous claim was about juniors that won't even approach the job for less than 60k, and I took that information that I found first with a Google search to illustrate that 60k euros is more than the average salary in most EU countries.

Of course you could share more precise numbers from one of your national institutions that reports this information, but on the website listed the monthly average gross salary stated for Austria is around 4540, which comes to 54480 a year.

I could count on one hand the number of junior developers I've encountered that I would call exceptional, and deserving an average salary right from the get-go.

[KeplerBoy]

I wouldn't worry too much about the average salary. Those numbers usually include people working part time.

And, stating the obvious: Software developers tend to earn above average salaries.

[signal11]

> Most people would probably name it as Europe. And you would have to go looking in Eastern Europe.

Affinity[1] is a good example, I believe that’s created in Europe and its very reasonably priced.

Pixelmator too — based in Lithuania?

[1] https://affinity.serif.com/

[hardware2win]

>And I think you would find, if you are lucky, that a competent European junior-ish developer would not get out of bed for less than 60k Euros (65k USD), a more senior developer would demand more.

You realize that 60k usd after tax is 240k PLN which is like 6.6 times minimal wage?

This is good cash, not top, but good.

Junior people earn 36-120k PLN, so half of that.

[tuetuopay]

> And I think you would find, if you are lucky, that a competent European junior-ish developer would not get out of bed for less than 60k Euros (65k USD), a more senior developer would demand more.

Let me tell you that you are far off the reality. I live in Paris and junior developers don't get near as much as €60k/year. The 35-40k range is more realistic for juniors, and senior ones can get what, 90k? That's alread considered really good for an engineer here.

Of course you can make six figures, but that implies working for a silicon valley company that hires remotely in europe. And those that have offices in europe adjust their compensation accordingly.

Just for demonstration I looked at Datadog on levels.fyi for the three they accept to show me:

- Paris, $77k-$94k (so €70k-€85k)

- New York $180k (for level 1 SE, senior is through the roof)

[tsimionescu]

I'm not sure why you're comparing the cost of one SV dev with the cost of a while business unit in Europe.

[eastbound]

Located in France. A senior developer who performs bad work with a wage of 65k€ costs 100k€. Plus the office, wfh, computer, etc.

So $235k is 200k€ so one developer and one PM, because the dev alone has a brownian behavior concerning progress (unable to take initiative).