Until you’re over the many hundreds of thousands of dollars per year range, it works pretty well as a rule of thumb. If your company wants the cost of working in an office, they’re probably not paying high salaries to work in a rundown shack and the people making those high incomes also want better quality benefits (especially in the United States where healthcare is so expensive and cheaper plans mean more time having to argue with someone whose bonus is based on denying care).
Is that 90k the "lower average"? In Ukraine? I find that very hard to believe. Even here in Czechia that would put you firmly in the top 5 %. I don't think I personally know more than 2 people who make anything like that, and one of them isn't even in IT.
Top 5% overall or top 5% of dev jobs? Former sure, latter might be not? I live in Prague, and there are definitely multiple companies that pay more than 90k to middle positions. especially if it's before taxes.
Remember that employee cost is usually estimated at twice their salary.
Does that scale neatly with salary? I would expect it not to, with things like benefits and other costs being relatively fixed regardless of salary
Until you’re over the many hundreds of thousands of dollars per year range, it works pretty well as a rule of thumb. If your company wants the cost of working in an office, they’re probably not paying high salaries to work in a rundown shack and the people making those high incomes also want better quality benefits (especially in the United States where healthcare is so expensive and cheaper plans mean more time having to argue with someone whose bonus is based on denying care).
I assume people who are paid more also typically receive better benefits
Dev costs are around 40-45 USD per hour for a lower average in Ukraine. Annual salary would be closer to 90K.
Is that 90k the "lower average"? In Ukraine? I find that very hard to believe. Even here in Czechia that would put you firmly in the top 5 %. I don't think I personally know more than 2 people who make anything like that, and one of them isn't even in IT.
Top 5% overall or top 5% of dev jobs? Former sure, latter might be not? I live in Prague, and there are definitely multiple companies that pay more than 90k to middle positions. especially if it's before taxes.
They're hired through a firm generally speaking. I don't know anyone that hires directly. So you pay for the overhead and HR management. etc etc
That's right. 90k is the correct value for a mid-level (real, productive) developer across Europe. 40-50k is possible, but for entry-level positions.
If you look at engineering salaries in Germany, 90-100k is what you pay for a senior engineer or PM, not a mid-level one.
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Is this the thing where the 99th percentile people somehow think they're the average? I see that a lot on Reddit for some reason.
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