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What's interesting to me is that if you adjust the average salary in the 80's for inflation and productivity gains it'd be close to what (non-FAANG) devs make now. As in the "high salaries" of tech workers is just what average folks used to make relatively speaking previous decades.
Any source for that claim?
tech workers deserve higher salaries. companies just don't want to pay it. they want you to make as little as possible
You just don't want to pay it. You want him to make as little as possible.
Not just tech workers. 24 year old non-technical product managers at FAANG companies are demanding $190,000 salaries. As a European I wish more FAANG companies started hiring software engineers remotely. The only American companies that have offered me remote jobs with FAANG tier salaries were cryptobro startups.
I've been casually looking for opportunities on linkedin, and for many of the roles I consider applying to there's >100 applicants according to the linkedin listing. That strikes me as exceptionally high vs. past years when I was shopping around.
Perhaps it's the same 100 people applying for every listing
Not just tech workers. 24 year old non-technical product managers at FAANG companies are demanding $190,000 salaries. As a European I wish more FAANG companies started hiring software engineers remotely. The only American companies that have offered me remote jobs with FAANG tier salaries were cryptobro startups.
FAANG have many offices in Europe..
What's interesting to me is that if you adjust the average salary in the 80's for inflation and productivity gains it'd be close to what (non-FAANG) devs make now. As in the "high salaries" of tech workers is just what average folks used to make relatively speaking previous decades.
Any source for that claim?
1: https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/ 2: https://clockify.me/productivity-pay-gap
For me at least from family in construction work it's very clear. They made the same hourly wage in the 80's as many workers do now, despite how much more productive construction has gotten.
The second article has a good quote:
> Wages and productivity were not growing at a directly proportional pace, but for some industries, such as high-tech (especially nowadays), wages are proportional to productivity. It all depends on the choice of variables taken into account.
Site is unusable from EU. The cookie consent popup has a freaking progress loading bar that reaches 100% after a few minutes only to say it failed to save your cookie preferences.
You’d think by now we’d have our browsers handle some kind of default cookie setting so we don’t have to deal with these annoying pop ups.
I've been casually looking for opportunities on linkedin, and for many of the roles I consider applying to there's >100 applicants according to the linkedin listing. That strikes me as exceptionally high vs. past years when I was shopping around.
Very much an employer's market since half of the world wants to move here.
Till I landed my first contract (which included additional work for employer on residence permit as new entrant) I applied cca 75x, had few interviews (and landed 2 offers at the same time). This was with 6 years of diverse experience in exactly what I was looking for there, studied on uni exactly this, knew languages.
Second job was much easier, agency and company wanted exactly me, but that was rather unique match.
Compared to Czech republic I moved there from, they were so desperate for seniors that even 10 years after resettling they kept bombarding me almost every day with offers to move back, immediate hires for senior positions and high (locally) salaries.
Site is unusable from EU. The cookie consent popup has a freaking progress loading bar that reaches 100% after a few minutes only to say it failed to save your cookie preferences.
You’d think by now we’d have our browsers handle some kind of default cookie setting so we don’t have to deal with these annoying pop ups.
I've been casually looking for opportunities on linkedin, and for many of the roles I consider applying to there's >100 applicants according to the linkedin listing. That strikes me as exceptionally high vs. past years when I was shopping around.