UK Treasury trying to find a Head of Cyber Security for £55k

Post by airpoint » Sun, Apr 02, 2023, 1:17 PM UTC

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I worked at Coinbase making 140k GBP in base compensation. My SF based colleagues with the same job title were making 250k USD (so 202k GBP). We sat down one day and compared our household budgets line by line and in the end we estimated that 'money left over' for equivalent house, medical and kids education my American colleagues were slightly better off, but maybe only by 5-10k USD per year. Anecdatally ...

140k is an incredible salary in the UK though, like top 0.1% at least. It's also hard to compare things 1:1 - since the NHS is "free" (via taxation), but it doesn't cover dentistry at all really whereas equivalent good US health insurances will do.

Post by ForHackernews » Sun, Apr 02, 2023, 1:23 PM UTC

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I mean, it's fucking NASA. I'd probably work there for free just to be able to say I'd done it. "Oh, you got a lot of RSUs for your social media click-tracking? That's nice. I helped bullseye an asteroid 9.6 million km away, potentially saving every life on Earth. But yeah, that new infinite scroll is cool, too."

It's nice to imagine when you're not the one worrying about paying rent. I work in an interesting area (bioinformatics research) and as expected the pay is pretty dire to match. You do get the warm fuzzies now and again when strangers ask about your job, but the rest of the time is spent wondering if you should move into fintech so you don't have to worry about grocery prices.

Post by meghan_rain » Sun, Apr 02, 2023, 1:50 PM UTC

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I get a lot job offers in my LinkedIn inbox and newsletters from places like glass door as I like to keep my eye on the market. One thing I’ve been seeing a lot recently is salaries for dev roles steadily dropping in the UK. The concerning thing, in my opinion, is that the poster linked by OP seems disillusioned as to the standard of living in the UK. They specifically mention being paid £55k as being equivalent to $…

Post by candiodari » Sun, Apr 02, 2023, 2:07 PM UTC

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I’ve had the misfortune to work with Accenture acting on behalf of the UK government. They’ve somehow managed to stretch a software project 2 years past delivery date, bleeding the UK taxpayer dry the whole time. At no point have these people shown even a shred of professionalism or competence. All the while I’m not even sure the boffins at Whitehall even realise they’re being robbed blind. But to be fair, if it wasn…

Reminds me of how the HealthCare.gov website cost 2.1 billion and yet had countless issues when it was launched.

Post by petesergeant » Sun, Apr 02, 2023, 2:17 PM UTC

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Have you met many civil servants in the UK? Generational wealth isn’t a term I’d associated with them

I'm Canadian, but there is a difference between civil servants and the management. I'm guessing that it's the same. Your frontline civil servants aren't the wealthy ones, they are working a job. It's their bosses and directors, who control the budgets, and can decided who get's the juicy private contracts. Isn't the PM from a very wealthy family? That's the sort of thing I am talking about, not the civil servant work…