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There is a lot of top Latam talent who want to stay in Latam because of family and culture issues, and also because earning in US$ while working remote from Latin America can provide a much higher quality of life than you would be able to get in the US.

Yes, that's actually my case. But, getting a salary on par with your skill set may require you to work directly with the employer or a lot of negotiation.

I've seen cases of top developers earning almost 50% less than their peers because they were hired via subcontractors.

I worked with great LATAM talent, but they weren't contractors, they were at Auth0 (founded by an Argentinian, incidentally).

i consider myself a good developer. when i was working as contractor for us companies, my fees were on par with my US colleagues (low six digits USD).

but it was not worth it for me to keep doing it, so i moved to europe (which was also quite easy given my resume).

Can you please provide more detail on why?

I would’ve figured it would be an amazing situation being in lcol earning a lot