As a dev making €50k in Western Europe, your salary is crazy to me. :)
And I'd wager COL here is also higher than Iowa.
And I'd wager COL here is also higher than Iowa.
There is a market if you're willing to play the game.
Did have a large transformation under my belt and critical national infrastructure as feathers in my hat.
The intention isn't to brag, it's just to point out there is a market here that can be tapped even if you can't travel to SoCal.
He took a 35% pay cut, and he tells me that cost of living in London is much higher than what he left behind in California.
It made sense for him, because he had personal reasons both to be in Europe and to take the specific open position he took that he wouldn't have been able to get on California, but he was much richer in California.