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JohnCurran | 3 years ago

I feel I must ask where you live / what competitive salaries look like to you, because as far as I know, a software developer salary of $190,000 USD+ in Barcelona, Spain is eye-poppingly high

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stopagephobia|3 years ago

I think he's talking about runn where the compensation honestly looks terrible: $43k as a junior and under $80k as a senior. I wonder if the goal of transparency there isn't to avoid wasting time with the majority of people who won't put up with a salary that low.

rsavage|3 years ago

I am sure it’s low in the Silicon Valley. Here in NZ - we are the highest paid tech juniors I know off. Most offer around 60k NZD.

Need to remove your US bias. However - the whole point of transparent is that everyone knows.

If the salary is low for you, you will never apply. But you know exactly what you’ll be paid, and know it’s the same as everyone else doing the same role/level.

That is the benefit to being transparent - it doesn’t have to be the highest paid, it’s simply fair. equal and transparent.

Aeolun|3 years ago

Isn’t that still good? Just means they’ll get mostly local candidates.

ZephyrBlu|3 years ago

In New Zealand that is pretty good compensation, unfortunately.

googlryas|3 years ago

In the US at Big tech cos(FANG style), that would be the base salary for someone with 7-10 years experience. And then you add on generous compensation packages(stock grants, 20ish% bonus target, signing bonus).

I would say it is eyepopping for US techies who haven't made it into the "big leagues", but there are probably a million software devs in the US making that.

spacemadness|3 years ago

Right, but that’s normally in extremely expensive US cities which is an entirely different league cost of living wise than Barcelona.

efficax|3 years ago

in norcal or new york, $190k is pretty standard for a senior role, with equity compensation on top. I get $185k with 7 years of professional engineering experience + rsus worth about $150k over 4 years, and really I could get more if I left for a bigger company, which I don't want to work at. Europe has lower salaries in general, but also a lower total cost of living and better gov't services.