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DevSkiller IT skills report 2021: Demand and hiring trends

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Re: DevSkiller IT skills report 2021: Demand and hiring trends

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> Switzerland $95,753 Australia $85,167 Denmark $73,017 United States $71,858

This is a bit misleading taken at face value as the US has loads of smaller cities with far lower cost of living whereas almost all of Australia's software jobs are in Sydney, Melbourne and smaller capitals. The Silicon Valley wages are at least twice as good as Sydney and nowhere near a proportional cost of living increase.

Re: DevSkiller IT skills report 2021: Demand and hiring trends

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> Switzerland $95,753 Australia $85,167 Denmark $73,017 United States $71,858 This is a bit misleading taken at face value as the US has loads of smaller cities with far lower cost of living whereas almost all of Australia's software jobs are in Sydney, Melbourne and smaller capitals. The Silicon Valley wages are at least twice as good as Sydney and nowhere near a proportional cost of living increase.

Sydney is more expensive than Silicon Valley so if anything it's an even worse comparison than it seems on the surface.

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> Switzerland $95,753 Australia $85,167 Denmark $73,017 United States $71,858 This is a bit misleading taken at face value as the US has loads of smaller cities with far lower cost of living whereas almost all of Australia's software jobs are in Sydney, Melbourne and smaller capitals. The Silicon Valley wages are at least twice as good as Sydney and nowhere near a proportional cost of living increase.

Sydney is more expensive than Silicon Valley so if anything it's an even worse comparison than it seems on the surface.

I find that hard to believe. Do you perhaps mean compared to local wages?

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

Re: DevSkiller IT skills report 2021: Demand and hiring trends

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> Switzerland $95,753 Australia $85,167 Denmark $73,017 United States $71,858 This is a bit misleading taken at face value as the US has loads of smaller cities with far lower cost of living whereas almost all of Australia's software jobs are in Sydney, Melbourne and smaller capitals. The Silicon Valley wages are at least twice as good as Sydney and nowhere near a proportional cost of living increase.

Sydney is more expensive than Silicon Valley so if anything it's an even worse comparison than it seems on the surface.

I read the comment this way too, but the OP is actually agreeing with you.

They are saying that Silicon Valley salaries are much higher than Sydney, and the cost of living in SV isn't anywhere near double (as you point out, it's probably cheaper than Sydney).

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