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Looking at their jobs page, I'm a bit shocked at how low salaries are in India

1,000,000.00 INR = 13,985.88 EUR

and that's the top rate for the senior JS dev position.

That is a bit over Rs. 80k per month. That is decent money in India. You can kind of understand the scale if you see that their entire remodeling job cost $14k. In western countries it would be 5x that at least.

Their rent on 2k sqft is approx $1.9k (7.6k savings / 4 month) so that gives some scale as well.

Also, don't forget that its tier-1 city. If you move to tier-2 or 3, you can cut the cost by half(seriously).

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