[vmlinuz]

This kind of post is somewhere between depressing and surreal to me.

I live a long way outside the US - UTC+8 - and these sort of numbers are utterly unreal for most of the world. In my recent experience, pre-, during- and 'post-'pandemic, the vast majority of remote companies aren't willing or able to consider people outside their local timezone(s) and/or tax jurisdictions, while my local market is masssively under-developed compared with most other developed parts of the world, unless you can break into banking.

My most recent income was a little over a third of this, and that was with a bank, albeit on a devops-ish contract. I am a senior engineer - you could say mid-senior if you really wanted to pick holes in my CV - and I'm pretty much ready to quit the local market, and then likely relocate due to inability to pay rent otherwise...

Meh. Have a good end of year and stay safe, y'all.

[noogle]

The logical conclusion is to move to the US, then. But seriously, the software industry concentrates in the US. The high salary represents (in part) this concentration rather than something about the US itself. Thus, it makes sense that companies are not looking outward - employees that are worth this kind of salary have already moved to the US. Similar to how other industries chose other places to concentrate. Any "market" of numerous agents requires an agreed-upon "marketplace" - not just geographically, but also legally.