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Re: Show HN: Job board aggregator for best paying remote SWE jobs in the U.S.

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Post by martin_a »

trinix912 wrote: post #102
scirob wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its so sad that companies arn't ok with a simple US llc wrapper. EU people can deal with their own taxes the possible tax savings are well worth the extra paper work for an EU worker so i'm sure they would be willing. But HR compliance people are so risk averse they don't want to see any non standard candidates.

> EU people can deal with their own taxes the possible tax savings are well worth the extra paper work for an EU worker so i'm sure they would be willing. Several companies have been taking this approach recently, requiring you to set up a "small one-person business" (replace with whatever it's called in your specific EU country) which is a long and costly bureaucratic process so that you can pay a shit-ton of taxes…

> requiring you to set up a "small one-person business"

At least the german tax office will take notice of such pseudo self-employments and act accordingly. Not a great idea.

Re: Show HN: Job board aggregator for best paying remote SWE jobs in the U.S.

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Post by Herring »

briandear wrote: post #47
Herring wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Be careful what you wish for, unless you want tech oligarchs messing with your governments as well.

So low salaries in Europe are because they lack oligarchs?

Concentration of economic power generally leads to concentration of political power (ie non-democracy). There are tons of pathways, eg campaign finance, lobbying, media ownership, threat of capital flight, regulatory capture, to name a few.

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Post by horns4lyfe »

Guestmodinfo wrote: post #2

Can you please make one for India or any place where Indians or other third world countries with large populations can find work too. I'm sure you can serve up this as a premium service in India with some 40 companies and ppl will be happy to pay you an yearly subscription of 1000 rupees (slightly more than 10$) for 50 searches

So all these companies can get spammed with fake Indian resumes?

Re: Show HN: Job board aggregator for best paying remote SWE jobs in the U.S.

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Post by piltdownman »

najmlion wrote: post #23

I wish these salaries existed for Europe

They do to an extent - plenty of 120-150k fully remote or one-day-a-month jobs based out of Dublin, Ireland. Just that our tax rate is 52% over 75k, and our capital gains is 33% after an allowance of €1270, so they tend to trade-off hours and responsibility for pure salary at the most senior levels.

Re: Show HN: Job board aggregator for best paying remote SWE jobs in the U.S.

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Post by piltdownman »

martin_a wrote: post #121
trinix912 wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> EU people can deal with their own taxes the possible tax savings are well worth the extra paper work for an EU worker so i'm sure they would be willing. Several companies have been taking this approach recently, requiring you to set up a "small one-person business" (replace with whatever it's called in your specific EU country) which is a long and costly bureaucratic process so that you can pay a shit-ton of taxes…

> requiring you to set up a "small one-person business" At least the german tax office will take notice of such pseudo self-employments and act accordingly. Not a great idea.

What are you implying? The structure for contracting or consultancy in Ireland and most of Western Europe is exactly that - setup a one-person LLC or act as a sole-trader

https://pjf.ie/business-sole-trader-vs-limited-company/

Re: Show HN: Job board aggregator for best paying remote SWE jobs in the U.S.

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Post by piltdownman »

briandear wrote: post #47
Herring wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Be careful what you wish for, unless you want tech oligarchs messing with your governments as well.

So low salaries in Europe are because they lack oligarchs?

Low Salaries in Europe are because of progressive tax regimes leading to extremely low wealth inequality and far higher social cohesion.

It's like when agitators use the comparable GDPs of Bavaria and Mississippi as a KPI indicating Europe's lack of economic prowess. In fact, it's just a scathing indictment of wealth inequality in Mississippi where life expectancy is 10 years less and infant mortality 400% higher than in Bavara, despite their similar GDPs.

Re: Show HN: Job board aggregator for best paying remote SWE jobs in the U.S.

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Post by koliber »

xitang wrote: post #99
koliber wrote: post #57

The first job I clicked on said this in the actual ad. This is a far cry from a remote job. The aggregator needs a little more tweaking: This role is based out of Reddit's office located in San Francisco. We will only consider candidates currently located in San Francisco, or currently within close commuting distance to the SF office. The role requires in-office work 4 days per week.

Thanks so much for noting this! This is a big miss with the current filtering logic. I will get it fix next. This is my fault as I notice most positions in reddit are remote so I falsely assume that it is a remote company. They are hybrid it seems.

I'm sure with a few more iterations you'll get most of the bugs out.

I also saw another oddity but failed to note it. There was a job where the total comp number was lower than the base pay number. Might be good to add a hard rule that prevents displaying that and flags it internally for your review.

EDIT: it was this one: https://block.xyz/careers/jobs/4647628008?ref=remoteswe.fyi&...

Re: Show HN: Job board aggregator for best paying remote SWE jobs in the U.S.

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Post by sokoloff »

xitang wrote: post #109
FirmwareBurner wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, but the expansion is usually only in a handful of places like the Dublin, Amsterdam, Warsaw and that's about it. There really isn't a remote for Europe.

I am not too familiar with Europe, but a remote job usually ties to a specific country, likely due to tax or some regulations. Another reason is that different country in the same continent has different cost of living and salary band, etc. For some of these reasons, it might explain why while there is remote job in US or Canada or Mexico, there is no remote job for North America, the continent for these 3 countries.…

It can be difficult to understand the various countries’ laws and their practical application for employers, requiring country-by-country study.

The same policies that provide strong protections for employees against being terminated can serve as a barrier against those same employees being hired in the first place. Different countries have chosen different points in that regard. Netherlands is stronger than the US for employee protections, but not as strong as Germany. France offers even more protections for employees.

Employers can’t treat EU as a single country, because, well, it’s not. They have to understand the laws and usually incorporate in each country. (None of this is complaining that it ought to be some other way, but rather just observing why you don’t see typical non-giant companies offering “anywhere in EU remote” roles [and agreeing with your analogy to North America].)

Re: Show HN: Job board aggregator for best paying remote SWE jobs in the U.S.

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Post by moneywoes »

Guestmodinfo wrote: post #5
xitang wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for your suggestion! I haven't looked into non-US countries yet, but that is a helpful pointer given India is the most populous country in the world now. I will keep this in mind. Are you based in India? How is the remote landscape there?

Yes I am an Indian and based in India. Everyone loves remote work here though ppl go to offices also but we are extremely family oriented ppl and tied to our ancestral properties. So remote is awesome. I have even more suggestions that for 2 months you can offer your services as an introductory offer at 1000 rupees and then after two months when enough ppl have joined you can switch it up to 20k rupees especially for…

what's the stripe equivalent in India
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