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Comment by pdhborges

17 hours ago

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.

  • Sure in the US. But people are throwing token caps in 500, 1000, 2000 dollar range here. That is a very significant expense on top of salary, taxes and benefis. It's only justifiable if they observe 20% 30% or more productivity increases across the board.

    If you have huge salaries, yeah sure 500 dollars its okay even if you only get 5 10% more productive.