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Re: Ask HN: How much do you make in London?

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Post by pyb »

pyb wrote: post #120
gringofyx wrote: post #63

Reading some of the amounts listed is a bit depressing, I thought that the increased cost of living in London would justify salaries and rates much higher than the average. By contrast I know from personal experience you can earn the same or better than what's listed here outside of London and enjoy the lower cost of living.

In my experience, contract rates in London have been dropping like a stone in the last 2 years. I'm still not sure why that is, but feel forced to start planning my escape...

(My current rate is an awful £300, and that was hard to find!)

Re: Ask HN: How much do you make in London?

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Post by barpet »

brianwawok wrote: post #114
barpet wrote: post #57

Those people @ 55 - 60k (EUROS) should really ask themselves if it's worth working in London.

Can they do better elsewhere in the UK? Seems like many options except move to the US

I do not have the statistics but you can earn that much elsewhere and pay less rent & other costs of living.

Well so unless you are a briton or you love the country / city too much I do not see a reason not to move elsewhere.

Re: Ask HN: How much do you make in London?

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Post by ShinyCyril »

LondonTA77 wrote: post #112

ASIC design, 7 years here now. £45k + bonus + pension + healthcare. Without the bonus it isn't anywhere near what you'd get in a bank, explains why so many of my university mates took their EE degrees into finance. Probably partly due to the lack of hardware jobs in the capital. I've always found the name 'Silicon Roundabout' very ironic.

Where do you work? There seems to be a significant lack of hardware jobs in London.

Re: Ask HN: How much do you make in London?

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Post by ionwake »

Throwaway33333 wrote: post #75
ionwake wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you rely on random calls from agents throughout the day to setup your next role or do you have a couple you rely on? How many calls / emails do you get a day?

Half my contracts are through agents, I spend a lot longer than I'd like to admit on my LinkedIn profile. One agent has admitted they have a 30% margin which explains the ~1,000 phone calls and emails I got last year. I run a blog, I'm active on Twitter and I've worked with a lot of different businesses and coworkers since I started my career so this is where the other half of my contracts come from. I've heard from…

Thank you for your replies, they were most informative. I'd love to read your blog if you want add me on twitter and DM me, thanks!

Re: Ask HN: How much do you make in London?

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Post by londonite »

pjc50 wrote: post #107
londonite wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Close" is a relative term. Is it closer to London a little Scottish town, far from any airport or major communications hub, than Paris or Barcelona? http://jorgepratscher.com/commuting-from-barcelona-to-brackn... http://www.totaljobs.com/insidejob/extreme-commutes-to-londo...

I think you're missing a word .. but yes, parts of the highlands and islands are definitely further away in time from London than Paris is. I think even Manchester may take longer, at least until HS2 is operational. (The first link isn't very encouraging! "As a consequence I had to visit my dear friend the physiotherapist to check my displaced vertebrae and super swollen trapezius muscles that didn’t let me get off m…

lol yeah! I would never commute from Barcelona like this guy, but just puts into perspective how fast can you be very far.

I once had to visit a customer a Friday and a Monday (so there was no big point on staying the whole weekend in a hotel), having to drive each day 5 hours each direction. That was without leaving the UK. Apparently this guy makes it quicker from Barcelona to Bracknell (not even London, which would take less time IMHO).

Re: Ask HN: How much do you make in London?

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Post by throawaylondon3 »

dnnrly wrote: post #88
gringofyx wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, Bristol, Liverpool... probably in that order. I've heard good things about Glasgow, Birmingham and Cardiff too. The North West has been good to me and I've never really had to leave the area because there's pretty good transportation links over a wide area with a large population. And I've lived and worked in Berlin too, it's nice, but by no means the perfect solution. And y'know... it m…

You should try Nottingham too. There is at least 1 major brand with deep pockets offering very interesting amounts of money for developers at the moment.

That's great until that major brand goes bust. At least in London you have hundreds of major brands.

Re: Ask HN: How much do you make in London?

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Post by throwawayPayLdn »

jbms wrote: post #106
throwawayPayLdn wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not bad to be honest, 8-7 but I do get out for an hour or so at lunch.

Those look pretty bad to someone outside London. How much travel on top of that?

I'm young, so if I'm not coding at work, I would be doing it at home most of the week.

Travel is < 30 minutes each way.

Re: Ask HN: How much do you make in London?

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Post by LondonTA77 »

ShinyCyril wrote: post #124
LondonTA77 wrote: post #112

ASIC design, 7 years here now. £45k + bonus + pension + healthcare. Without the bonus it isn't anywhere near what you'd get in a bank, explains why so many of my university mates took their EE degrees into finance. Probably partly due to the lack of hardware jobs in the capital. I've always found the name 'Silicon Roundabout' very ironic.

Where do you work? There seems to be a significant lack of hardware jobs in London.

Nokia (and it's only just about in London). Other than Cambridge, Langley and Bristol there's very little in the UK at all.

Re: Ask HN: How much do you make in London?

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Post by londontosser »

Yet another throwaway acct. 20+ years large-scale ops and security, last five with one of the "big five" tech companies. £100K base plus stock worth £150-200K/year depending on which way the market wind was blowing on vesting dates.

Currently doing my own startup and cyber-security consulting for £750-900/day.

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