Just looked on that link for the UK. The average is listed as £63k, which is $85k.
So you’re not exactly disproving the point that that type of high salary is a US thing.
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surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 12 hours agoA Senior Developer in any major city makes that amount of money.
Patch@feddit.uk 11 hours ago
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
You can’t at all compare unless you reference cost and standard of living. I’ve managed and hired people in multiple countries. It’s not as simple as salary X exchange rate.
Patch@feddit.uk 6 hours ago
Cost of living in the UK is about 20% lower than the US, including housing costs. But the average salary is about half of the US salary. So you can see that that doesn’t really cover it.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I hate that people treat the US like a country. It’s bad for statistics.
The cost of living in New Jersey is 50% higher than Alabama, for example, using the site you linked. Averages across the US are near meaningless.
Since I’m talking about tech jobs, we should compare to states with lots of tech jobs, and we might get a better comparison.
FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 12 hours ago
Funnily enough, it shows the localised amount.
For me in France it shows 50k€ to 69k€, so $58k to $80k at current exchange rates
It just confirms that this is USA only haha
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
You can’t just look at the exchange rate. You have to look at cost and standard of living.
Someone in the US making 100k is not doing as well as someone in France making 70k€
railcar@midwest.social 3 hours ago
Doing better until you happen to incur a medical emergency, then bankrupt.
philpo@feddit.org 11 hours ago
And a 80k$ salary in France amounts to around 125k$ cost for the employer. So 170k$ isn’t that much - I actually know French developers and network engineers that make similar money. The French ITsec architect I interviewed last year would have cost me (converted) around 150k$.
So 170k$ is absolutely not out of the normal range here.
Talking about France: The French government could start to properly support matrix.org as they use it for tChap. The same goes for Germany with the “Behördenmessenger”
thundermoose@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Listed salaries are almost always what the employee pays, not what it costs the company. In the US, this includes the payroll tax, and cost of “benefits,” like healthcare and unemployment insurance, and is referred to as the burdened rate. This is separate from the income tax the employee has to pay to the government, mind you.
The burdened rate for most employees at the companies I’ve worked for in the US is like 20-50% higher than the salary paid. Not sure exactly how it works in France, but I do know there’s a pretty complex payroll tax companies have to pay. I think it’s something like 40% at the salary you quoted.
Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
Plus you have to add in the amortized cost of legal, HR, etc for employees.
Not a big deal for 1-2 employees, but as you scale you need support employees
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 7 hours ago
80k plus all of society’s trappings of France. Dude, it’s not even a comparison. Worker’s rights, healthcare, public transit, safety, security…