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A few weeks ago I saw $600k/y for a MEV engineer. So, yes, probably very hot.
What is MEV?
Moisture extraction vehicle. Moisture farmer, like Luke Skywalker
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Do you mind sharing the company name? I’m interested
I'd prefer not to, at least publicly. I've dropped an email address in my bio - feel free to ping me there if you like.
I was interested but all I see on your profile is “A deceased arachnid, with beans”. Have you already taken it down?
Throwaway because my current employer would see me.
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#35Zoom
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So what happens when you work remote for like 250k? Do you just retire after five years? Trying to get my head around US salaries.
You pay 35% taxes so that's like 150, then you max out retirement and you're left with like 130. You spend 50-70k and then save 60k a year which is like 1 year of your pre-retirement expenses (not including any children, just like a couple or single person) So yeah definitely not retiring in 5 years unless you are already 55. This also means you didn't do anything flashy or crazy with your money or lose it in markets…
> You spend 50-70k
Woah, woah, woah! That's more than most people in the world, the US or even California earn in a year, before taxes. (Median per capita income in California is $39k).
Why is a remote worker going to be spending roughly double the average Californian?
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That's only federal. You could pay more than 100k on this.
I know that pedantry is kind of a thing here, but people working remotely to save money aren’t generally living in a state like California. Also for the sake of pedantry, you still won’t be paying 35% even with California taxes. Nor could you pay over 100k even in California, so far as I can tell, unless taxes go up or there’s other income at play.
California isn't the only state with state income tax. Most states have it. The pedantry is on your end.
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#38NetSec, CISSPs, OpSec, basically anything security.
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You pay 35% taxes so that's like 150, then you max out retirement and you're left with like 130. You spend 50-70k and then save 60k a year which is like 1 year of your pre-retirement expenses (not including any children, just like a couple or single person) So yeah definitely not retiring in 5 years unless you are already 55. This also means you didn't do anything flashy or crazy with your money or lose it in markets…
> You spend 50-70k Woah, woah, woah! That's more than most people in the world, the US or even California earn in a year, before taxes . (Median per capita income in California is $39k). Why is a remote worker going to be spending roughly double the average Californian?
Its long been a a realtively true thing: take any salary in California, and cut it in half - and thats the same level of salary-Quality-of-Life you would have in any other state...
So making 100K in CA is the same as making $50K in Wyoming.
However, we are seeing a HUGE squeeze on cost of living in California.
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As an example, my brother bought a house in June 2020 for $327,000.
The house now Zillows for between 488K and 517K (depending on if yu believe their site, or the emails they send you.
This house was built in 1959.
My grandparents bought their house in Saratoga in 1959 for $29,000.
Sold it in ~2000 for $2,500,000.
Its now zillowing for $3,650,000.
Its almost the exact same layout as my brothers. Same build year. The only difference is that it is a 4BR and my brothers is a 3BR.
(and location...)
THe california real-estate market is literally crazy.
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But realors are an abomination. They are part of the reason (a major part) that cost of living is nuts.
Reality shows about realtors should be illegal - its market manipulation.
Look at companies like HouseCanary -- they attempted to build a ML/AI platform to inform hedgefund realtors on buying everything they could...
There should be a "protected" class of real-estate, one that cannot be purchased by hedgfunds or any individual that does NOT live in the residence. THese housing developments should be partially helped by local muni ords etc..
Budget accountability should be a thing ; SF is proposing to PAY for people from outside SF and California to COME to SF and get an abortion, such that they will pay for travel, accomodation AND procedure.
SF can't even take care of its OWN homeless folks, yet want to pay for out-of-state-abortion-medical-tourists???
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A few years ago I went thrugh the CDPH budget and read it, and looked at the salaries and employees divided by the number of homeless it claimed to be "helping"
I found that the city of SF was paying out ~$25,000 per year, per homeless person in "services"
Why not just pay those homeless people the $25,000 a year to have a city job that requires them to clean the city?
The salaries of the people that work in CDPH on the homless prblem shows the root cause
These are just anecdotes on how california is fn broken.
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#40My employer is currently spending a MASSIVE amount on recruitment globally, and we're still having a hard time hiring especially in California. We've got ads on every social media platform and job network, we've got booths at every career day and conference, we've hired extra recruiters on contracts AND subbed out to boat loads of 3rd party recruiters, and I'm pretty sure we've even started producing video ads for Yo…
“Generous but not FAANG level” for some crap startup no thanks.