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is £50k enough to live in London on your own? (i.e. a one br flat)
I was paying £250 a week rent for a one bedroom flat in a complex with gym + pool in zone 2.
Rent prices are a little higher than they were two years ago now though!
We really need unions. These polls only help so much. Unfortunately also, there are both retard programmers, and actual programmers. I worked with a retard programmer, he thought that learning Django was a feat of strength...sigh..when I told him about OOP he almost shit his pants.
I also see a lot of contracts around 400GBP a day in London for front end folks, thats around the 100K mark per year.
is £50k enough to live in London on your own? (i.e. a one br flat)
I lived comfortably in zone 2 on £40k a year. I was paying £250 a week rent for a one bedroom flat in a complex with gym + pool in zone 2. Rent prices are a little higher than they were two years ago now though!
I also see a lot of contracts around 400GBP a day in London for front end folks, thats around the 100K mark per year.
As a contractor you can spend a lot of time just marketing yourself, invoicing, etc. I'd imagine this is more like 50k per year in practice.
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Wait, could you explain to us outsiders "the way the City works?" Are bonuses that important?
In the City, you get hired based on a "total comp" package that includes salary and a practically guaranteed bonus, that can be as much as your base salary or even more.
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Well, my wife recently started in France, with M.Eng. in CS, for what translates to around £25k/year. And that is considered well paid.
France is completely different, she is employed either hourly- a maximum of 35 hours/week- or employed daily, ie. 218 days a year (for starters). EDIT: @nawitus: Sorry but your data is totally useless for this purpose. 1) it's the whole economy, not just programmers and 2) it includes part time workers! To imply that full-time programmers in London are working on average less than a 40 hour week is so far from realit…
You might want to also ask daily rates for contractors... most of the salary rates I've seen are around 60-75% of what contractors go for, and London has a crazy number of contractors (I'd guess 75% contract, 25% full time?)
80k base, 130k last bonus. I'm 2 years into doing mostly Java, Python and C++ in a hedge fund. I left a small non-finance software firm where after a few years I was on 25k.