flibblercorn | 4 years ago | on: Times are great for programmers now. How does it end?
lol I found the same awful experience at the above poster when I tried to look for something to bump my salary recently.
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flibblercorn | 4 years ago | on: Rethinking Levels, Promotions and Salaries
Yes, I am aware that the salary for an entry level employee on the Daily system is more than the total value I bring to my employer per year. I am paid less than half because I already eat up about 60-70%* of the total income I bring to the company.
The ability to earn American style wages, without trying to emigrate, is entirely out of my hands. There isn't anything I can do short of risk homelessness for myself and my family in the attempt to create a better business (which I am incredibly unlikely to be able to do).
* depending on quarter, project, year by year, etc.
flibblercorn | 4 years ago | on: Rethinking Levels, Promotions and Salaries
Yes that is something that comes up on hackernews a lot, and I personally still struggle to accept it.
According to the Daily level system I should be in their band 5, so $210K, but in England I am paid less than half their entry level salary (at current exchange rates).
Americans don't have IQ scores, or any other metric to suggest being approximately 4-8 times the quality of other developed countries workers, so it's hard to just take it and accept that their compensation isn't due to their ability (on average), and that life isn't fair.
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