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This is highly related to location based compensation. Sure companies are still able to pay there most senior devs less than their out of coding bootcamp just because they are not sitting in their SF office and I am ok with this, but as a remote dev from eastern Europe I am seeing new types of companies that learned how to work with remote talent effectively (not just in term of pay, but also team dynamic) and they make a killing.

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Not to beat that dead horse, but I agree.

During COVID I transferred to a team based in the US west coast. My manager was happy with me working remotely from England, which has been great since I was able to move to the countryside where cost of living is much cheaper.

However I'm still getting paid about half the comparable salary of my colleagues over there just because of the location. Yes, I know, in the US health and education is more expensive, but the difference in income still impact my bottom line.

Also in a sense it's quite demotivating knowing that those new grads I'm mentoring make more money than me.

Salaries in the UK are less than the USA, or even China. I remember a friend moving from Beijing to Cambridge (for a well known big Corp) had to put up a decent struggle to keep his salary from being cut to local levels. I don’t get why UK salaries are less than most other major dev sites.

Because devs don't tend to have PPE degrees from Oxford, and as such, are merely peons. \s

Seriously, it's super weird and I don't understand it either.

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