Well, we don’t have these kind of tech…uh…“foundations” in Europe. But execs in other companies are getting 500k…
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onlinepersona@programming.dev 7 months ago
US salaries are just completely bonkers. 500k is “mid-level facebook”? What the actual fuck? Europeans are getting completely shafted. They are the cheap, qualified, tech labor of the US.
nexusband@lemmy.world 7 months ago
onlinepersona@programming.dev 7 months ago
Last I checked GAFAM exist in Europe but don’t pay close to what they pay their US counterparts. European companies also have CEOs that earn millions but still pay their software devs way below 100k€/year.
nexusband@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Oh I agree with that, it’s just that there aren’t many CEOs that get 6 or 7 millions as salary in the EU. These people are making their money elsewhere…
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
One reason tech companies are able to give absurd salaries is to suppress competition. If they can price everyone else out from good engineers, they can keep competition low.