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These numbers can get wonky fast. E.g. devs salaries in Ukraine are pegged to the dollar, so they get free raises as the exchange rates plummet. At the same time the cost of living in Ukraine was low before the war and only got lower. Oh and taxes are pretty low in Ukraine.

So I'm pretty sure Ukranian devs will end up with one of the top salary rates in all of Ukraine, but the externalities of that are large.

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>> free raises as the exchange rates plummet

Also developers use official exchange rate while everything is imported using market rate. 10% cut here.

>> the cost of living in Ukraine was low before the war and only got lower

This is not true. Some low skilled services are cheap, but high skilled are not.

Or are you talking about cost of housing near the frontline?

Dev salaries in Ukraine also down since the start of the war as no new projects are outsourced to the country.

I'd call "getting conscripted into joining a fucking war" a rather large externality!

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