$90k/year is between a good and outrageously good salary for Europe, depending on the country. So yeah, plenty of talent available for cheaper than $90k/year.
I wouldn’t say I am significantly above average and I’m not in management (architect/principal engineer).
Similar story in Australia. Not quite US levels but decent compensation, I don’t feel taken advantage of.
I am 41.
Next step would be management, but I've done that before, and will be staying IC as long as I can make this kind of money for it.
But I have a year left before I am mortgage free anyway, so that will change the risk calculus a lot, probably go contracting for more $$.
Probably laughable comp for the Bay Area at this stage of my career, but I am not in the Bay Area...
Base is 170k. Bonuses are reliably paid out. Based on RSUs, it can also be much higher than 220k.
I've had years where it was 300k, share price dependent.
My peer group are all in the 180-250k range, and many are working for Kiwi companies.
All-in-All you get the same value, numbers are hardly comparable.
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UK is cheaper for quite a few things, so a direct currency conversion doesn't work. If I had to guess, probably in the 90-100k GBP ballpark.
In my fairly liberal country (Estonia), 75k eur a year renders around 42k eur a year take home, really great salary living costs wise but taxes still take a large chunk.
Is this something special with Estonia, or are salaries catching up in the rest of Baltics, Poland, etc?
I think apart from the post-soviet Central European countries, Baltics are the outliers, and Estonia is the outlier among them (with Lithuania catching up). Mostly because of lenient tax policies and high levels of entrepreneurship. But all this growth does increase inequality a lot, a person in the countryside might take home 600-800€ a month in comparison.