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Cost of living varies dramatically across the globe as does currency value. To make it truly a global poll, I suppose he should have asked how units, x, of a mixed basket of local goods, b, could you buy per year worked. xb = only possible correct statement of income. You come up with b and repost the poll if you so desire.
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I just graphed the data: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/839/unledwte.png/
Why wouldnt you use a barchart?
How much do I make? Sometimes, I simply can't put a price on what I do. Two years ago, I was kidnapped by monkeys, who appeared to be in a trance. They took me to the top of the Swayambhunath Buddhist complex, in Kathmandu. I was told that this was the Monkey Temple. As a monk translated the wishes of the holy monkeys, I discovered that I was required to rewrite the OS of their ancient computer, which had failed to r…
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…
One gentleman created a poll several months back; he had a google doc where people punched in similar kinds of information. Analytics were promised. I cannot find the link - does anyone remember this, or know what happened? Edit: here is the link. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2763932 My best suggestion is glassdoor.com for this kind of information. And that resource is not limited to HN participants.
Not everyone works in the US - fairly narrow minded view of the world?
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Please tell me how you found a renovated walk-up 1BR in Chelsea for $2k :)
A good broker is worth their exorbitant fee. The way I see it a broker should be doing one of two things (or preferably both): 1. Saving you time in finding an apartment; and/or 2. Saving you money. It took two afternoons (in January this year) to find this apartment. When I saw it was being renovated so I had no idea what it would look like but it was a decent size (~500 sqft), on a nice street off 8th Avenue and on…
There should really be a choice between areas with "high" 1br-costs-2000-a-month cost of living and Idaho/Kentucky.
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Agree totally. For instance, I could never figure out if these American polls take pension deductions into account. Where I live, the employer pays additional ~20% on top of base salary into various pension/saving funds, but since everyone gets it, it isn't taken into consideration when comparing salaries. I always wondered if seeing a quoted $100K salary in the US - does it include these pension payments or not.
My guess is that in general no, because for programmers, typically, there isn't any pension. However, there's something called 401k which is a type of retirement account. You can contribute to it through pre-tax contribution directly from your paycheck. It's fairly common for employers to match a certain amount to what employees contribute. Some might match 100%, some 5%, some up to a certain amount, some have some v…
