Also our wages are low. Look at the current job postings. https://www.seek.co.nz/Software-Developer-jobs
Then take into account that $1 NZD is equal to 0.59742741 US Dollars. So if you are earning $100k in NZD that is not even $60k USD. Our national average house price is $888,999. It's much higher in big cities. Our food costs are rapidly increasing as well. I pay over $1,000 NZD for power and gas.
Smart developers are leaving.
I'm working on getting her to understand that we don't need to heat rooms we don't use.
But $280 is cheaper than I pay during summer. I'm averaging about 20KWHs in the summer. At the moment it's closer to 75KWHs per day. Our hot water is all gas. About 1 x $150 bottle per month in the summer. That moves up to 1 per week in the winter.
Double glassing is in the wish list. Then wall insulation. But we have a mortgage and an asbestos roof to deal with first.
That's a lot of energy per day, mate. I'm in the US and not particularly careful with usage and I'm averaging about 25KWH a day. You might want to get a usage meter that lets you check various appliances/lights/switches in real time to find the heavy usage
We do need to get down to less freezers but we have some home kill that we need to get through first.
I normally don't stay in places with a dryer and just let things air dry. If you're running heating/ac, they normally lower humidity so things dry really fast anyway.
6 a day is on the high side. It's probably an overestimate.
When there are no new borns we might dry 3 loads a week.
But the house is a work in progress. The curtains blow on a windy day.
I'm in Ōtepoti/Dunedin (best city in NZ!), and within my social network most developers work remotely for overseas companies.
That is something I need to look into. I'm guessing now is a bad time to be looking for international work. It seems like the job market is not great internationally.
100%. There are 2 NZ employment markets. Those working for NZ companies in the $100k region, and those working for US firms for the $200+k region.
I've had an annoying time explaining this to past US employers when they present median values for NZ salary fudge factors.
The few job boards I've seen all have either low salaries, or are US-only...
FWIW - technically I run a NZ company, so am a contractor and not an employee of the company that my day-to-day manager works for. This arrangement seems to be common among people who work for US companies, or are US citizens, which brings up some questions about the stats in the article...
My team of ~12 is nearly ~30% kiwi at this point.
All you other NZ devs should join the Slack server I founded for IT people in NZ. https://dev.elop.nz/ a lot of us work remotely. We have a dedicated jobs channel and all - we also have some very good recruiters. (700ish people)
"Smart developers are leaving" - or working for overseas employers. This seems to be quite common. Too bad NZ is a small market which I feel make many jobs not that interesting.