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Without knowing where the users are based, this data alone is pretty meaningless. Where I'm from in South West England pretty much all the programming jobs are Java (hence why I left), and you are lucky to get £40k. Spain and Portugal have even lower salaries. I'm guessing this is US based, but even then, I'm sure there is a lot of variation. Working in London as a Java developer in finance you could easily get over £100k.

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And you can be based in post-soviet ("happy" 45th anniversary to crushing Czechoslovakia's future) country, make $10k or $20k and be very happy.

Personal experience? My SO is Lithuanian, so I would be interested to know what working in that area is like.

I can tell you that you live really well for quite few Euro after tax in Transylvania (as long as you don't go to West Europe for vacation).

This is quite easy to check, Google: living costs Cluj London

http://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/comparison/london/c...

(Don't trust information about cities with too few data points.)

The only downside is that the prices of imported goods (most notably electronics) and software are usually higher than in the US for example. Services are much cheaper of course.

I'll second this. I've yet to ever see any PHP job short of architect paying that amount here (most are 70k or less), same with Java and Perl. I'd like to know where this was collected from....I need to move there.

I feel the opposite. I can't get anyone that knows puppet for under $110k in the Boston area. All these salaries seem low for Boston, and probably the bay area as well.

Geeze I need to move there....somehow.

That is... crazy high it seems like to me! Heck, I'd do it for less than $110k!

Agreed. Working as a Haskell/Erlang dev in finance would get you well over £100k as well. Scarcity of such positions is a different matter though.

I wish in Colombia to be like that. Here, the normal is something like US 800/month/Full time.

Check out contract jobs, which tend to pay higher in the UK.

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