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Poll: How much do you make as a programmer?

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Re: Poll: How much do you make as a programmer?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

From the numbers people seem to put in their gross income. I would find it interestin to see how much is taken away by the goverment for different salaries and locations. In Germany, the government takes away roughly 50% of your income.

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Where do you get those numbers from? If you're taking the top tax bracket, don't, that tells you absolutely nothing about an individual's effective tax rate.

Re: Poll: How much do you make as a programmer?

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net or gross? and what about specify state? USA is not the same as France or India

From the numbers people seem to put in their gross income. I would find it interestin to see how much is taken away by the goverment for different salaries and locations. In Germany, the government takes away roughly 50% of your income.

Last line is bs. Its not "the government". Taxes are much less. It includes all kinds of insurances included (medical, unemployment, retirement, etc.)

Re: Poll: How much do you make as a programmer?

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net or gross? and what about specify state? USA is not the same as France or India

These numbers are meaningless outside the US.

And I don't just mean taxes. Cost of living, housing, healthcare, insurances, transportation, social security, all of these things are so vastly different outside the US. It's pointless to compare US salaries to those in France or India.

Re: Poll: How much do you make as a programmer?

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This sort of poll is better conducted anonymously. I'm happy to discuss this stuff anonymously but don't want people I know Googling my name some time in the future. Also interesting to know would be how much people augment their day-job salary income with side-work (consulting or micro-businesses).

How is this poll not anonymous?

Re: Poll: How much do you make as a programmer?

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This sort of poll is better conducted anonymously. I'm happy to discuss this stuff anonymously but don't want people I know Googling my name some time in the future. Also interesting to know would be how much people augment their day-job salary income with side-work (consulting or micro-businesses).

How is this poll not anonymous?

The poll is, but the comments aren't - OP requested information on what we do for our paycheck, which I'd be more inclined to provide if I could do so without it being related to my (real) posting name.

Re: Poll: How much do you make as a programmer?

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This poll exemplifies the problem with all of these polls: it doesn't say what it's measuring. I would put in vastly different numbers for base salary vs base salary + bonuses + shares + other benefits.

I see the same on Glassdoor on elsewhere. The bigger problem is the people volunteering such information have differing views on what to put making such information mostly useless.

Also, if life has taught me nothing else, people lie about their incomes, even anonymously.

Re: Poll: How much do you make as a programmer?

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post #13
post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From the numbers people seem to put in their gross income. I would find it interestin to see how much is taken away by the goverment for different salaries and locations. In Germany, the government takes away roughly 50% of your income.

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Where are you getting these? They look like the marginal tax rates, which don't really tell you all that much.
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