Comment by pdhborges
14 hours ago
10 grand a month for a junior is absolutely ridiculous in most of the world including large swats of the western world.
14 hours ago
10 grand a month for a junior is absolutely ridiculous in most of the world including large swats of the western world.
Between all the benefits, taxes, and the infrastructure the company needs costs rise pretty quickly.
No, they really don't, it's a ridiculous claim.
Fully loaded employee cost is typically around 2x their actual salary. Junior employees making only $60k/yr is absolutely nothing. It’s lowish even in most parts of the western world.
You have people in Spain and Portugal hiring juniors at 25k per year.
You can also get cheap devs in Central or South America or Eastern Europe too. Doesn’t make it untrue that large parts of the world have junior devs much more expensive than that.
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The software market has trimodal salary distributions.
They were talking about what it costs the company, not just the salary. There are taxes, insurances, equipment costs, etc.
10k might be a bit too high, but it's far from "absolutely ridiculous" amounts of being too high. An employee with a 5k salary can easily cost the employer 7-8k
I took into account all of that. Still ridiculous.
In the US, it’s really difficult to live a middle class lifestyle if you’re not making at least low to mid 100k. I don’t see any starting software salaries at good companies below 100k even in the Midwest.
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