This comes off as slightly on the entitled side. Yearly salaries at $100k+ is very high by Western European standards. I can only imagine what our Eastern European colleagues would feel about it. If you can live a comfortable life and send our children to school well fed perhaps broaden the horizons a bit before ranting off about how much better the world would be if you could be paid a bit more.

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Havoc 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Context suggests he’s in the US so not sure that sort of cross jurisdiction comparison is useful.

You could just as easily say Europeans are entitled because their salaries are high compared to an Ethiopian. It’s not a useful comparison

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xorcist 3 hours ago | parent [-]

The point was that a $100k+ compensation for a software office work is among the highest in the world. If a comparison with another high compensation area falls flat, then maybe that says something.

Perhaps another US state would have been a better comparison. It might be hard for a software developer in Montana to identify with a Silicon Valley rant about salaries being too low.

It would not cross my mind personally to complain about low compensation for my skilled work, precisely because I know my collegaues from areas with lower compensation are just as skilled and earn less. In what way would the world be better off if I was better paid? If it helped my company increase their security posture then that would say more about the ineffective ways we organize work around here than anything else.

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malfist 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Great, I know people in Africa live on less than a dollar a day. How soon can you start working for me? I don't follow minimum wage or overtime laws, you're a gig worker

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Cthulhu_ 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It may be high, but so is cost of living; a better way is to compare spending power.

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		There is no reasonable metric by which one can claim US software devs are hard up I think is the point being made. Everyone would like to make more but I was interpreting this thread as suggesting a us dev whining that as a field they’re being mistreated comes off a bit gauche
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mettamage 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

In the Netherlands many senior SWEs make €85K+ at the moment and that is what $100k+ is right now.

I'm writing this because I don't consider NL to be the top country in Europe where you can make a lot of money being a SWE. And I'm not talkin about FAANG salaries either, they are higher here.

	▲	em-bee 22 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		which would be the top country then? i can't think of any country in europe that offers even that much. perhaps scandinavia, but life is more expensive there too.