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Ask HN: How much do you work, what's your salary and how experienced are you?

#1
Hi, I have a really chill job at the moment, but I'm underpaid. I know I could make twice as more, I was even recently contacted for a job paying 3 times more.(I would have tried if it didn't require relocation)

I'm looking for a new job, but I don't know if I should aim for a really high salary, depending on how much more work I'll have to put in.

So I'm wondering about your experience, how many hours do you put in weekly or monthly/salary after of before taxes/location/job title/experience?

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#6
155k, Linux/DevOps/SecOps. I work about 40 hours a week full remote.

However, I just found out I'm getting laid off in october as they're moving services overseas to cut costs. I work for the largest Clinical research org in the world & we were bought by them last year. I'm a bit surprised & the group that bought us was not known for tech. I think they're going to ruin a lot of their tech offerings because I've worked a lot with their Systems/Devops people over the last couple years and they are extremely unimpressive.

As for experience... I technically started at age 17 in the military doing tactical communications via satellite, networking, servers, radios etc. But been working in private sector for about 12-13 years after going to school for about 2 years upon getting out.

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#10
In my experience salary vs hours is not correlated and varies wildly across companies. I've worked for huge corporations that paid extremely well and could have easily worked ~30hrs/week and be seen as 'high performing' (impact vs effort is something to learn).

Check out http://www.levels.fyi for aggregate data.

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