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These salaries are terrible, how is it possible to get away paying such low salaries in London? In the US (not even San Francisco) I'd expect nothing less than 125k USD (105GDP)

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$125k for a PHP dev with 3 years experience? Where do I apply for that job?

The Bay Area, Seattle, or New York.

PHP devs in the US generally get paid a lot less. 45-75k on the junior end and 80-105k on the senior end. I took a job in PHP/Wordpress/Salesforce because I liked the company and the people and I'm paid like half of what you said. In New York.

I can manage but yeah, I'm asking for more money soon. 125k as a baseline, especially in PHP, seems absurd to me. Sure, I could switch to any of the stacks that I'm more familiar with and make way more, but with a lot more hours and stress added.

I get my work done in ~30-33 hours, am not on call, have a lot of influence over our products and like absolutely everyone at the job. From my perspective, more pay seems like golden handcuffs. Here I am free to live my life.

It's a different world. It is important to known if this is before or after taxes and healthcare is free (or rather: paid for by taxation) in the UK.

I've only ever heard of salaries being quoted before taxes in the UK - same as the US.

Fun bit of trivia: the UK government spends less tax money on everyone's health per capita than the US government does (before you even add on health insurance)

For a PHP developer with 3 years commercial experience?

$125k?!?! That seems...pretty damn high for an intermediate level dev.

That's actually 88K GBP which I guess might be doable as PHP dev in London if you are working for a major US company and are very senior.

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