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Their senior solution architect vacancy has similar pay: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/about/our-people/careers... Somewhat less eminent job title though.
Pretty decent flexibility though.
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A friend is making about £180k / yr in London, and they bought a house recently in London. I think that's a lot, and his wife also makes a similar amount, slightly more. That seems to be the minimum, otherwise you're a renter for life. Pretty nuts.
As a senior dev? What sector?
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The UK is still the 5th biggest economy in the world. Public infrastructure feels like it's under huge strain however, and there is also a big problem with inequality, which seems to be changing under Labour, albeit slowly.
Raw economy size can be misleading in two ways. The value of a dollar is much less or much more depending on where you're at. So an economy of 10 shekels might mean an economy of 100 widgets, or it might mean an economy of 1 widget. Purchasing power parity (PPP) attempts to account for that. The second is that economies are largely a product of population. An economy of a million making a million shekels is quite a b…
Setting aside the special cases (tiny, oil money, weird finance sectors, tax havens etc) there's basically a handful of countries which are clearly doing something right - the US, Taiwan, the north-eastern European countries (Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden). Most of the other "developed countries" are sitting in the same sort of GDP per capita range of $65-$75k. Ranking these isn't so meaningful - the difference between the UK and France is only 1.5%.
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A friend is making about £180k / yr in London, and they bought a house recently in London. I think that's a lot, and his wife also makes a similar amount, slightly more. That seems to be the minimum, otherwise you're a renter for life. Pretty nuts.
As a senior dev? What sector?
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Let's not be delusional. The UK is not a poor country, and 64K is low by US tech standards but it's good by any other measure.
The UK is poor and sprinting as fast as it can towards being poorer.
The UK is poorer than the US - sure. But it's wealthier than most other countries in the world. Not just in terms of GDP per capita or average household wealth, but also in infrastructure terms - the cumulative effect of being a wealthy industrialised country for so long is a huge amount of infrastructure.
I think it's fair to say that UK wealth growth has slowed at the same time as many other countries have caught up. So the UK is no longer the leader it once was. But that's very different from saying it's a poor country. It's just not.
Sounds like a very cool job, and not sure about the UK job market, but seems to be wildly underpaid for the qualifications!
This, shockingly, is actually quite well paid considering for the UK. Lead Data Scientist for the UK Government is currently advertising for a salary of £57,670 - £67,500. https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?jco...
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This is like a 90th percentile UK salary.
In reality, because the "salaries" higher than this aren't paying in PAYE.
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I highly recommend avebury, about 20 minutes down the road. Absolutely enormous megalithic complex, huge man-made hill, and you can just wander where you wish, go hug a menhir, whatever you fancy - and there’s hardly ever more than a handful of other people there. Oh and it’s free.
You must have gone at a quiet time. Avebury can be absolutely heaving in the Summer and on the traditional pagan quarter days. It also has a pub, a restaurant, a gift shop, a museum founded by a marmalade magnate, and if you're really rich you can buy one of the houses inside the circle. Generally a happier experience than Stonehenge. If megalithic rocks are your thing there's also the nearby West Kennet Longbarrow,…