Comment by alephnerd
2 years ago
IT Professionals and most other white collar jobs are draft exempted in Russia [0]
To make up for the unfairness, mobilized Russian soldiers are being paid Russian/Eastern European white collar level salaries ($2,500/mo) [1]
The issue is if you're a Russian contractor working for a western company, how is the western company supposed to pay you? Russia's banking system has been decoupled from the west, and even Asian banks in China and India (major trading partners of Russia) are hesitant to fill the gap out of fears of secondary sanctions.
If you want to earn dollars, best to move to a Russian speaking country that isn't sanctioned like Kazakhstan, Georgia, or Bulgaria or to an easy to move country for Russians like Turkiye, Serbia, UAE, etc.
[0] - https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-excludes-some-it...
[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/31/opinion/russia-ukraine-wa...
> To make up for the unfairness, mobilized Russian soldiers are being paid Russian/Eastern European white collar level salaries ($2,500/mo) [1]
$2500/mo is way higher than I would have thought they were paying these soldiers.
They're only paying the surviving ones. Also they're conveniently delaying payments and benefits to the families of the deceased.
https://youtu.be/t-VUAeRMGQU?si=0wNOnWtIiTBYh2XR&t=287
Interesting - although I think this is clearly intended as somewhat of a propaganda video.
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Not all IT professionals are exempt, you have to have an university degree. Most do, but a sizeable minority doesn't.