Damn, I'm average. Does the 101K+ crowd care to share what industry/stack/niche you work with? Hints acceptable :)
The bay area.
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#192Front-end dev, Just below 60, I got the feeling taht even for back-end salary are much lower in Canada
Yes they are. Hop across the border to Seattle or NYC with a TN visa if you want to stay close to home and your salary will literally double. Don't worry about health insurance since if your not employed, you not allowed to be in the USA for long anyways. And seattle is half price compared to vancouver. You'll bitch about the $200+ border penalty for flights although.
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cars might be cheaper here, and gas certainly is, but we use a lot more of both than Europeans because we tend to be spread out a lot more. That's another factor raising our cost of living, which drives up the salaries we demand. I swear I'm not picking on you but I see this line all the time when US-EU gas price comparisons are made and I just can't buy it from a logical POV. So I thought I'd get all anal and play w…
Our cars are probably less efficient on average too, with all the SUVs. You've got miles/year and $/gallon, but not miles/gallon. You need all three to compare. I'd be interested in what you come up with. For what it's worth, my commute is one mile and I drive a Mini, so I can't use the commute cost to justify my own salary...
Having a more costly car ones own choice. You can't expect to have more luxury in the US when you're trying to compare $/gallon
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#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
You might want to add "Technology/Industry" like Web Companies(FB,Twitter), App Companies(Built on Top of FB, Twitter), Mobile Companies, Networking (Cisco, Juniper), DB/related (Oracle), OS(Apple, MSFT). I "get" the feeling that programmers in Web technologies get paid less than people in hardware/appliance companies like Cisco, Juniper, NetApp etc. Edit: Just noticed the Industry Option :)
Hardware (as in embedded programming) actually pays pretty badly compared to web programming (although I expect Cisco/Juniper are exceptions).
Depends on what field you are in with embedded programming. I know a few people that work on embedded hardware such as microwaves, fridges and whatnot that make 100,000+ a year.
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
Salaries in Britain are in general lower than the US, especially as measured by purchasing power parity; the difference is about 30%. This is recouped in theory by the increased services provided by the British government (e.g. NHS and the Dole). On the other hand, New York is more expensive than the Valley and salaries are, IIRC, even higher.
Actually this is a big misconception in UK/Europe. Unless you are a independent software contractor you get insurance thro your company in US. So the salary posted here excludes the benefits (insurance, vacation, 401k etc)... IMO, with lesser US taxes & cost of living the US software programmer makes atleast twice than that of his eurpoean counterpart!
Even if you get it through your company sometimes, if not most of the time the employee is required to put in Y out of X amount where X is the amount of the plan.
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly. I don't want to know what an employer thinks they can get away with or even what level I can push it to (which may be higher or lower than my 'recommended' level). To get a proper idea I'd also have to do a lot of interviews. Hence where someone who's got a bit of experience/knowledge in this area can save me a load of hassle.
ex-Googler Piaw Na offers just the service you are seeking: http://books.piaw.net/negotiate/index.html
Sadly, that website says that he's on vacation and not accepting new clients.
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#198Here in Brazil, I get paid approximately 11k brazillian reais.. Translating to U.S. dollars that would be 7k. These numbers are really impressive to me.
got that right! i was wowed!
here in the philippines; we have lesser than your 7k figure! haha! and that's yearly.
above there is a discussion about living expenses; then i search for the National Statistics website and found out that australia or canada seems better.
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#199If you look at how salaries are distributed across the US public, the 60k - 100k category is way too large while 151k-200k should probably be just one range and not two. As someone who hires programmers, I am much more interested in how many people make between 60-70, 70-85, and 85-100.
I think it adds value but I have also created a richer survey here ( https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey... ) The raw anonymous results will be shared on HN in a few days w/analysis.
It doesn't say whether you're supposed to give gross or net income. Can make a huge difference when comparing countries or even states.
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#20020K, Russia, Izhevsk