[xorcist]

This comes off as slightly on the entitled side. Yearly salaries at $100k+ is very high by Western European standards. I can only imagine what our Eastern European colleagues would feel about it. If you can live a comfortable life and send our children to school well fed perhaps broaden the horizons a bit before ranting off about how much better the world would be if you could be paid a bit more.

[Havoc]

Context suggests he’s in the US so not sure that sort of cross jurisdiction comparison is useful.

You could just as easily say Europeans are entitled because their salaries are high compared to an Ethiopian. It’s not a useful comparison

[xorcist]

The point was that a $100k+ compensation for a software office work is among the highest in the world. If a comparison with another high compensation area falls flat, then maybe that says something.

Perhaps another US state would have been a better comparison. It might be hard for a software developer in Montana to identify with a Silicon Valley rant about salaries being too low.

It would not cross my mind personally to complain about low compensation for my skilled work, precisely because I know my collegaues from areas with lower compensation are just as skilled and earn less. In what way would the world be better off if I was better paid? If it helped my company increase their security posture then that would say more about the ineffective ways we organize work around here than anything else.

[Cthulhu_]

It may be high, but so is cost of living; a better way is to compare spending power.

[jghn]

There is no reasonable metric by which one can claim US software devs are hard up I think is the point being made.

Everyone would like to make more but I was interpreting this thread as suggesting a us dev whining that as a field they’re being mistreated comes off a bit gauche

[malfist]

Great, I know people in Africa live on less than a dollar a day. How soon can you start working for me? I don't follow minimum wage or overtime laws, you're a gig worker

[mettamage]

In the Netherlands many senior SWEs make €85K+ at the moment and that is what $100k+ is right now.

I'm writing this because I don't consider NL to be the top country in Europe where you can make a lot of money being a SWE. And I'm not talkin about FAANG salaries either, they are higher here.

[em-bee]

which would be the top country then? i can't think of any country in europe that offers even that much. perhaps scandinavia, but life is more expensive there too.

[subscribed]

Fintech in London pays fairly well if you're skilled for the role. £100k pa base is considered low (best companies pay £250k+).

Of course the downside are absurd taxes, up to 62% on a large part of that, so I hope people try to escape that as much as they can (considering the politicians and the wealthy do the same just orders of magnitude more and in the open).

[insane_dreamer]

1. He's obviously talking about the US, you have to factor in COL especially in the cities where the employer wants you to be.

2. You have to take the numbers relative to corporate profits and shareholder earnings, which have ballooned