Why is this in dollars?!
Europe data salary benchmark 2023
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Re: Europe data salary benchmark 2023
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Because everyone has a different cost of living is exactly why it needs to be taken into account when comparing salaries. If it were just reporting regional salaries then that would be different. But when you then generalise salaries across lots of regions with wildly different cost of living, then you either need to adjust for regional variations or add massive disclaimers that these are superficial figures and cann…
Does the analysis say anything about purchasing power? I mean, if someone is dumb enough to read just this one article and move to a different country because there was no disclaimer… I expect the target audience to have at least rudimentary critical thinking ability.
I wouldn’t suggest people are dumb enough to move, but people are certainly dumb enough to make widely inaccurate conclusions (as they have done here).
Re: Europe data salary benchmark 2023
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> It seems like you are disputing raw numbers. Numbers do not lie, but people’s interpretations of them can still be wrong. I don’t dispute the numbers but I do dispute how they’re being used to represent some biases without any consideration for the accuracy of how they’re compared and collated. > Most of the US has lower COL than London: https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/cost-of-living/united-states .... Yeah London…
My analysis has been exactly the same this whole time. I've just been trying to phrase it differently because you don't seem to understand what I'm getting at, which is that even when you take COL into account an average US developer comes out even or ahead of an above average EU developer financially. It's denying reality to believe that EU devs are even with US devs financially. I have no horse in this race, I just…
> My analysis has been exactly the same this whole time. I've just been trying to phrase it differently because you don't seem to understand what I'm getting at, which is that even when you take COL into account an average US developer comes out even or ahead of an above average EU developer financially.
That is an impossible statement to make because you’re making such a broad generalisation that it could be true or false depending on how you derive your averages. And this article certainly can’t be used as evidence for that conclusion.
I think the problem here is you’re arguing that Americans are better off. I couldn’t give a toss who is (it’s not a competition ffs). I’m just saying this article is worthless and people shouldn’t draw any conclusions from it.