Contractors aside, full-time devs have similar salaries, with bonuses in a finance sector in London. Also, usually it's "front-end", i.e. closer to the trader job. Infrastructure ("back-end") gals make less.
Ask HN: You make more than £150k/year in London, what do you do?
11–20 of 28 posts
Re: Ask HN: You make more than £150k/year in London, what do you do?
#12I'm almost at 150k, born & raised in London, and I currently live there. I fly out to other cities on weekends to party. Berlin, Paris, Reykyavik. London is a great launchpad to check out other cities. I'm saving & building passive income (developing mobile/web apps and charging monthly fees) so I can do this perpetually, Once I hit £10K a month passively I'm going to cut the cord and leave for good. EDIT: I'm 27, 4…
Congrats! Can you share any of the saas products/web apps that you're working on? I'm going to start building a little side project this month. Really keen to hear about how you're getting users to these apps as well! Indie Hackers is a great blog for reading up about other self funded services and SAAS products.
Re: Ask HN: You make more than £150k/year in London, what do you do?
#13Contractors aside, full-time devs have similar salaries, with bonuses in a finance sector in London. Also, usually it's "front-end", i.e. closer to the trader job. Infrastructure ("back-end") gals make less.
Working with traders is usually referred to as "front office". It's usually much more interesting, but also more demanding and stressful. Back office - trade processing, settlement, payments etc - is lower status and lower pay, but also less stressful.
Re: Ask HN: You make more than £150k/year in London, what do you do?
#14Contractors aside, full-time devs have similar salaries, with bonuses in a finance sector in London. Also, usually it's "front-end", i.e. closer to the trader job. Infrastructure ("back-end") gals make less.
Working with traders is usually referred to as "front office". It's usually much more interesting, but also more demanding and stressful. Back office - trade processing, settlement, payments etc - is lower status and lower pay, but also less stressful.
Much more interesting if you're into finance. But there are people who are more interested in tech-side, infrastructure implementation, etc...
Re: Ask HN: You make more than £150k/year in London, what do you do?
#15I'm almost at 150k, born & raised in London, and I currently live there. I fly out to other cities on weekends to party. Berlin, Paris, Reykyavik. London is a great launchpad to check out other cities. I'm saving & building passive income (developing mobile/web apps and charging monthly fees) so I can do this perpetually, Once I hit £10K a month passively I'm going to cut the cord and leave for good. EDIT: I'm 27, 4…
Congrats! Can you share any of the saas products/web apps that you're working on? I'm going to start building a little side project this month. Really keen to hear about how you're getting users to these apps as well! Indie Hackers is a great blog for reading up about other self funded services and SAAS products.
Seems to be some info in his profile.
Re: Ask HN: You make more than £150k/year in London, what do you do?
#16Re: Ask HN: You make more than £150k/year in London, what do you do?
#17I'm almost at 150k, born & raised in London, and I currently live there. I fly out to other cities on weekends to party. Berlin, Paris, Reykyavik. London is a great launchpad to check out other cities. I'm saving & building passive income (developing mobile/web apps and charging monthly fees) so I can do this perpetually, Once I hit £10K a month passively I'm going to cut the cord and leave for good. EDIT: I'm 27, 4…
Congrats! Can you share any of the saas products/web apps that you're working on? I'm going to start building a little side project this month. Really keen to hear about how you're getting users to these apps as well! Indie Hackers is a great blog for reading up about other self funded services and SAAS products.
I make apps for other people, and then charge to host them/provide minor upkeep. Things like web apps for evening classes, with schedules, integrated payments etc. So they aren't my products, I just make them for a client