The insane tech job market of 2021 in Ukraine

Per this caveat in the description of the salary chart: "Excludes candidates with less than two years of experience and/or poor English skills."

My guess is that this data set is skewed towards the most highly paid engineers who speak English and have some work experience, so my guess is true average / median is closer to $2000.

EDIT: missed the next paragraph where they actually add more details on this demographic: "The average salary for junior hire was $770 this year, almost the same as before the pandemic."

SV engineers pay close to that for a 1 bedroom apartment. You'll have a higher quality of life in Ukraine with $3.7k than you would with $7.4k (after tax) in SV.

Yes

I was going to say, i know salries can be low in Ukraine but $770 a year is beyond the pale.

It should be labeled more clearly rhat these are monthly

Yes, the contract are tied to the USD, but paid in local currency Gryvna (UAH). Because we have a quite high inflation and had large dips in the past, especially when the Russia started invasion to Crimea and Donetsk region.

You are right, but it's not super dangerous in the country. We haven't got tanks and rockets in the city and war only in the East of Ukraine.

Ukraine as a country is not going anywhere, relax, partitioned or not it is still viable place to work/live/invest to. Rather unlikely it to disappear, unless WW3 which is effectively destroying everybody's career around the world pretty much

Ukrainian devs live in this situation for almost 8 years already, look at Israel - they are at war for more than 50 years now

Why are you posting this? The salaries are always quoted net here.

We pay 5% tax (we work as Provate entrepreneurs), so there is not a big difference between gross and net for us.

gross, but the taxes is super low in Ukraine (at least for programmers). Most of the programmers pay 5% from salary + 50$

Gross. Most programmers will work as independent contractors and pay 5% in taxes. But keep in mind, 0 goes to your saving programs / pension and you have 0 employment protection, as you are not an employee, but private entrepreneur. You need to do plan for your retirement / unemployment entirely by yourself. The rent in Kyiv is $500 for a shoebox and $1000 for something adequate. Starting salary is $600-800 per month. So, you can afford a shoebox and to eat shit as junior dev :). Which is still better than a lot of industries here.

As high skilled engineer with 10 years of experience I make an $96 000 yearly, but I work directly for UK fintech company.

All things included SE still make a lot of money here, but nothing crazy. And trust me, living in California beats living anywhere in Ukraine at any day.

Ukrainian engineer here. All compensations are quoted net. I don't know why people are telling you otherwise.