I am. Full time US citizen software developer living in Asia for the past 3 years. Get paid to a US bank account. Country I’m in isn’t good at collecting taxes.
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#22The higher the org the lower the chances they would accept such an arrangement. Some allow remote work but expect you to be an employee which becomes impossible if you are from a country where they have no base so they can't legally hire you.
The pandemic created a lot more remote jobs but they often come with strings attached (e.g. US only), exactly because of what you said.
Famous example: GitHub.
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#23Curious question: does that also mean you get US salaries between $100K - $120K?
It depends. Some companies pay local salaries, others just keep paying whatever they pay at HQ.
can't really do this for very long. the local country will usually want to collect its own business/employment taxes on employed work.
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#24I do this, in NZ, for a 15ish person company. I 'contract' but my contract says I get a monthly rate not hourly, and I get holidays, a couple other benefits. I pay taxes myself. My work sends me my 'salary' with transferwise every month.
That said I read about Pilot which lets you be an actual employee. They provide the tax presence that so many companies want to avoid. https://pilot.co/
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#25Curious question: does that also mean you get US salaries between $100K - $120K?
Currently I'm making under $100K but I realized I'm getting severely underpaid. I'm currently interviewing at a bunch of places offering salaries ranging between $120K on the low end up to over $170K on the high end. They are all startups hence this question as I was wondering if bigger organizations would be worth looking into as well.
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#26Curious question: does that also mean you get US salaries between $100K - $120K?
In 2017, I had $132k USD/yr salary working in Vietnam full time. I am sure you can negotiate a lower salary if you don't want to earn more than $120k.
This might be a bit personal but, honestly, what is the QoL like with that level of income?
I've been to a few Asian nations previously and was extremely impressed how well one could eat on such a small amount of money. I had never seriously considered staying long-term, due to complications you may be familiar with, but I would imagine you can live pretty well with that kind of pay.
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#27You can work for Disney's DMED, which is a very large IT/software organization. You would have to become a contractor through one of the agencies they work with - "Happiest Minds" or "Globant" were the two I saw used when I was there. My current employer, Rigetti Computing, has I think 100-200 employees and has a few that are working from the UK, Australia, or Canada. But I think they would have to be especially inte…
Their website doesnt have a list of jobs. Do you know where Disney's DMED posts them? Thank you
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#28Curious question: does that also mean you get US salaries between $100K - $120K?
Yeah, I'm making above that USD, as a Canadian remotely for a company in the US.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
It depends. Some companies pay local salaries, others just keep paying whatever they pay at HQ.
can't really do this for very long. the local country will usually want to collect its own business/employment taxes on employed work.
It varies by country and your fiscal status, but as long as you pay taxes on your earnings, you're usually fine.
If HQ salary > local salary, the government just gets more taxes.
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#30Where do you find your contract US startup jobs? All I see is full time jobs on angel list. Maybe I'm not looking in the right place?
All jobs on AngelList are potentially contract if you're outside the US. Unless they want to set up a subsidiary for you (they won't) or use a global PEO (some do want to do this but most are happy with a direct contract in my experience).