Comment by nicoburns
3 years ago
SWE salaries are anomalously high whereas they would need to be anomalously low to fit in to the parent up-thread's comment.
3 years ago
SWE salaries are anomalously high whereas they would need to be anomalously low to fit in to the parent up-thread's comment.
Not outside of a small number of US tech cities and certainly not outside the US. My first coding job paid about $30k for example.
I am currently a senior engineer earning less than a SV graduate. My pay has been largely comparable to a plumber for my whole career. Not for lack of trying.
I suspect if whatever red tape os preventing US companies from remote hires world wide happening en masse, then non-MAGMA employees will see deflation in their wages.
Similarly if more people are let in on unrestricted working visas that last a while.
> Not outside of a small number of US tech cities and certainly not outside the US.
I live in London and graduated from a reputable university (so most of my friends have decent jobs). I make considerably more money than any of my peers except for those in a few select careers such as finance and law. I make a lot more than those in other technical career paths like mechanical engineering. And certainly compared with "generic graduate jobs" such as consulting companies or the civil service.
My first job wasn't well paid either (about £19k), but that quickly increased over 2-3 years in a way that salaries in other careers didn't seem to.