What's your salary?

Nobody cares about special obligations. They want to know what the market is like.

Average salary before taxes for all jobs is about $1000. Developers are paid about $1500 to $2500 gross on average, so my salary (about $3400 gross) is about the absolute maximum you can make before jumping to a manager/architect role (which are really scarce).

Quality of life is good but cost of living is also surprisingly high - about the same as in a city not in the US coasts, and the extremely high taxes cut into the chance of savings.

Real estate is very expensive (according to Numbeo, 50% higher than in most of the US) and there's no easy access to mortgages (interest rates are ludicrous, you need at least 20% of the property cost up front, some expensive overhead too).

The one huge benefit is healthcare being both cheap and REALLY good (the kind of service only very rich people get in the U.S.).

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

That's about right per year for a junior in Vietnam.

Saigon the wages can be a bit higher.

Yes, :( My friends' salary is even much lower :(

Had a 'startup salary' of RM3000/month earlier this year, but quit in August.

Did a lot of freelancing too, up to RM5000/month.

I have equity but its garbage. I know I'm being severely underpaid but after college graduation I was desperate to take the first available job offer (the salary was actually 85k at the time). What's a reasonable salary to ask for in my next job?

He most probably has huge cost of living. Cudos if not though.

Southern California.