My somewhat complete salary history as a software engineer

Post by pavlov » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 11:04 AM UTC

phyller wrote: post #208

apexalpha wrote: post #145

Very interesting thread this link has spawned. Not telling each other how much we make is only good for our employers, not us. So here we go: The Netherlands, 26yo male: 45k ($50k) as a technical trainee. It's €3200 ($3600) pre-tax a month and €2350 ($2670) after tax with %12,5 end of year bonus. First job here, and this is already above modal for my country. I'm very happy with it, especially seeing I don't have a f…

It boggles my mind that salaries can be so much lower in parts of Europe, while expenses are about the same as the US. Of course if you are living in New York City or San Francisco area expenses are higher, but most places they are not.

Post by itinit » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 11:05 AM UTC

dmarucco wrote: post #120

This is certainly an intresting post and i likethe OP attitude. We should be totally transparent about our compensation as he did. Salary is just the result of a negotiation, nothing else, in the majority of cases it does not reflect anything more than your "perceived" value. White male born in the '88 in Italy. I have a bachelor degree and working since 2008. Here in Italy is quite uncommon to have big jumps in sala…

Post by thisisit » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 11:05 AM UTC

sures wrote: post #103

I am a brown male working in India. The salaries are rounded to the nearest 100000 INR. USD values are rounded to the nearest 1000 USD. These are salaries per year . Need to emphasize this because when you see numbers like 3000 USD you may think this is per month. No it is indeed 3000 USD per year. When there are stocks involved, only the stocks that vest per year is included as part of the yearly salary. 2003 - 0 YO…

  2003 -  0 YOE -  200,000(  3,000 USD) - Software Engineer  - One of the very popular Indian IT firms
  2005 -  2 YOE -  300,000 (  4,000 USD) - Senior Engineer    - Same as above
  2007 -  4 YOE - 1,000,000 INR ( 14,000 USD) - Software Engineer  - A small American company with their office in India
  2009 -  6 YOE - 1,500,000 INR ( 20,000 USD) - Senior Engineer    - Another small American company with their office in India
  2011 -  8 YOE - 2,000,000 INR ( 28,000 USD) - Principal Engineer - Same as above
  2013 - 10 YOE - 3,500,000 INR ( 47,000 USD) - Principal Engineer - A big American company with their office in India
  2015 - 12 YOE - 7,000,000 INR ( 95,000 USD) - Principal Engineer - A big American company with their office in India
  2017 - 14 YOE - 9,500,000 INR (128,000 USD) - Principal Engineer - Same as above

Post by n4r9 » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 11:07 AM UTC

CalRobert wrote: post #215

n4r9 wrote: post #190

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Well, the places where you'd get better salaries than London probably don't have a much lower cost of living. Personally I'd consider working somewhere like California for a couple of years for the experience, but like a lot of Brits I just don't think the US would be a comfortable cultural fit.

Right, but I was referring to the Irish Sea. €95k (about $107k thanks to the atrocious euro atm) for that job would be ridiculously low in the valley, after all. As someone who left California for Europe because I wanted a better cultural fit I wouldn't tell Brits they should move to the US. But Ireland appears to offer better salaries, for all of its housing issues is still cheaper than southeast England, and isn't…

Post by sumedh » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 11:10 AM UTC

tybit wrote: post #134

toomanybeersies wrote: post #36

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The pay rates for tradies in Australia is phenomenal. If I had kids, I'd be encouraging them to become electricians, not software engineers. Even a lot of unskilled jobs pay really well in Australia. I have a friend who works for Aldi in their distribution centre as a general worker, and he's on $35 per hour (only 6 hour shifts though, I think), plus when he's rostered on Sunday he goes up to $70 an hour. Anecdotally…

At 2 years experience I was on ~50k package in Melbourne, and at 6 years ~200k. The pay tends to start off a lot lower here compared to the hot spots in the US but somewhat catches up from what I’ve seen.