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Comment by poikniok | Hacker News Reader

Wow this makes me glad to not be in Ireland. At best about ~50k a year in USD offered and you are surprised that people are not clamoring for this incredible opportunity! New graduates in the states earn about 3 times that. Anyway hope you find someone for that price, what a bargain!

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No need for the snark - salaries in Europe are a different story compared to the USA (aside from Switzerland perhaps); you can find some data here: http://www.payscale.com/research/IE/Location=Dublin-Dublin/S.... Of course, you are not the only one wondering what is going on with that: http://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-salary-range-of-software-pro..., http://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-salary-of-software-engineeri....

A salary of €40,000 results in a monthly take-home of about €2,540 (http://ie.thesalarycalculator.co.uk/salary.php) - plus pension, which is a fairly good salary in a city like Dublin for a developer at the beginning of his career (of course you would starve in SF with the same money!).

You ask for 3 years experience in building software. That's not someone at the beginning of his career, it's mid-level. And a quick google search shows that the average for C# developers in Dublin is €45,000. So your competitive salary is actually below the market.

Pay peanuts, get monkeys.

The point about the salary is valid - if we are looking for someone outstanding we should be prepared to spend outstanding money.

I would contest the notion that a person who's been developing software for three years is in the middle of their career, though - even leaving the semantics aside, I see no way that's not a junior profile.

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