Comment by bluGill
3 years ago
My company has noticed that good developers in Germany are cheaper than in India. Good is key here, you can get bad developers in India for very cheap (this might be good enough). The highest paid software positions in Germany are non-union jobs and the majority are not willing to leave the union for more money, which means they are refusing to do the work of a senior engineer, and this in turn means we can't use the cheap labor for lack of leaders.
I remember reading Indians on r/DevOps who were surprised they were earning more than Germans in DevOps/Ops positions.
Adjusted for costs of living or TCO? IT pays peanuts in Europe.
It doesn’t make sense to me why pay is so low in Europe. Is there actually that much less demand relative to supply?
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> highest paid software positions in Germany are non-union jobs
How does one identify a well paying non-union employer? Noname companies in almost all cases pay much less than union employers.
This is Germany, not the US, rules are different.
All I know is a lot of great engineers at my company are internationally refusing more pay to non union jobs. I.have no idea if it applies to other companies, or what the benifits are