[chrisseaton]

I'm sure you can't answer this, but are you paying him anywhere near $100,000 (£66,000)? In my experience that's about twice what a bog standard junior dev outside of finance, Facebook, Palantir, Facebook etc gets in London.

[tragic]

I would be astonished. I'm a junior on £27k, and when I was looking for jobs I never saw a single one at that level advertised over £30k.

Which rather puts the £8k fees in an unflattering perspective, but there you go.

[walshemj]

that's a little high I heard the average was around the £50k mark.

if its is so it's time to dust of my interesting bits of my job using ML to optimise ppc acountmanageent

[sp3n]

no where near that figure, obviously can't give specifics but its not even approaching half of that salary