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They say it's 100% of the full-time salary, but the one open position they have is a full-stack JS engineer for the equivalent of about $66k USD. Is the market really that bad in the UK? That's not even a good new grad offer in the US.

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That’s fairly normal outside SF/Silicon Valley - my friends and I all fell around the 60-80 range fresh out of school with CS degrees, working in the southeast (Raleigh, NC)

65k (General Motors) was the lowest offer I saw as a new grad in 2019. Everything else was above 75k. I took a job for 90k. I work in Texas.

Then you’re lucky.

I think that was pretty normal for the offers of my class. Feel free to check out the data in the Computer Engineering and Computer Science majors: https://aggiesurveys.tamu.edu/public/Reports.aspx. Pick Spring of 2019 as the semester.

No that's definitely on the very low side for a London engineer unless you're a new grad or with very outdated skills.

You can't directly compare salaries with the US though : the tax and benefits structure is vastly different.

A new grad offer in much of the UK outside London would be up-to $33k USD maybe less though I may be a few years out of date. US salaries are very different and seem strange to (this) non-American(s).

Yes, yes it is that bad. https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/london-software-engineer-.... 60k Pounds is about 75k USD. Seems like Beacon might be on the low side.

I wouldn't trust that : for one thing, they list the "Entry Level Software Engineer" average as £57,581 when "Software Engineer" is £53,392 overall.

Better in my experience : https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/

You might ask yourself - if Europeans are willing to do the work that Americans are doing, but for half (sometimes even a third, or quarter!) the price - Are European workers underpriced, or American workers overpriced?

With global corporations it's hard to imagine they would be willing to lose this badly on Labor Costs if there isn't a clear benefit to paying more in the US. Especially with the rise of remote.

Almost every company outside the US pays at most half of what the US offers for similar positions. Only a few unicorns and a few countries are exceptions to this.

Most of the US pays at most half of what a handful of (mainly) California and New York companies do.

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