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I live in a smaller city in Europe where wages aren’t anywhere close to what you often see mentioned on HN, with the shift to remote, should I start considering a full-remote position? How do you find these positions? Any advice on this topic would be appreciated. (For context I have 2 YOE, mostly backend, kubernetes, aws and I currently earn around €50k a year which not a bad salary for my area)

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Most remote companies don't pay by the country the company's office is located in but they pay by the countries employees are residing in.

But that 50K probably gets you healthcare, education and safe, clean functioning society? In other country you have to pay for this stuff separately since the governments/systems are dumb or corrupt. So I'd say the 50K is reasonable. Another thing to look at is the ratio of between how much you per month after all taxes and how much 2/3 bedroom houses cost.

That 50K is before taxes. My average tax rate is ~35% top marginal tax rate 50%. But yes that does give me essential free education including university, free healthcare, and good institutions.

> For context I have 2 YOE

People with relatively little experience are some of the worst candidates for remote positions. Not saying anything about you in particular, but they tend to need more guidance and get stuck more easily. Not only that, there's a lot of learning though osmosis that won't happen when they're not near other people.

Understandable, at what level of experience do you consider remote an option? In my current position I am a ‘tech lead’ (not as glamorous as it sounds) most of the people I mentor have little engineering experience (most people come from a operations or scripting background). I am an OK programmer but I have good organisational skills and wrote a lot of code before starting work so I have a bit of ‘unofficial’ experience, therefore I was chosen I think. I have a lot te learn still but overall I think I am good at my job. Just wondering what I can do to increase my salary.

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