Throwaway.
Data Scientist, Insurance, FT, 39k a year, approx 3 years experience.
Ask HN: How much do you make in London?
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#22Contractor, PHP/Full stack, 11 years exp, £350 - £400 a day in London. Not risen much in 5-6 years which is why i started doing other things like business consultancy.
How's business consultancy doing for you? Seems it's better paid, but I prefer the technical side personally.
You surely have more experience than me, but what I personally do is increase my rate by X% every 6 months or so, non-negotiable for new clients, with fair warning for existing ones. I often start a contract on tech X, and after some time I'm touching other parts of the business, so the rate increase makes sense.
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#23Semi-related question: How do you calculate taxes in UK? Is the base of the tax the salary offered by companies in job offers? I mean, with say £60k job offer, do I pay tax from £60k? (with the last £17k being taxed at 40%)?
Yes salaries are advertised gross, and you deduct tax from the gross figure. Try this site: https://listentotaxman.com/
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#24(throwaway account for obvious reasons) Web Developer in London for a dating company - £75000 pa (with bonuses it's around £110000 pa)
Are you a team lead or architect or similar? This seems high for just a web developer
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#25Semi-related question: How do you calculate taxes in UK? Is the base of the tax the salary offered by companies in job offers? I mean, with say £60k job offer, do I pay tax from £60k? (with the last £17k being taxed at 40%)?
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#26Semi-related question: How do you calculate taxes in UK? Is the base of the tax the salary offered by companies in job offers? I mean, with say £60k job offer, do I pay tax from £60k? (with the last £17k being taxed at 40%)?
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#27Senior front end developer. 4 years experience. Now a contractor on my first project at £350/day in a big company. Expecting this to rise to 400/450 for the next gig. A few months ago I was full time at a startup on £52K.
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#28working for an engineering consultancy at a very senior technical level, overseeing big data projects, and doing some business development. £80k p/a plus benefits
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#296 years experience. software developer 450£ per day
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#30This is kind of offtopic, but "There's recently been a lot of discussion about how much people are making in different areas of the US". Where can I find that post? Thanks