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Kaius  ·  4190 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Are coders worth it?

$150,000 is roughly €113,000! I know of zero developers earning that in Europe, we have well paying jobs but its hard to justify salaries that high unless the company brings in a huge amount of revenue. Hire 10 devs and you need a million euro a year just to break even...





user-inactivated  ·  4190 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's to the high end at the larger tech companies, and unusual anywhere else. Glassdoor puts the median for programmers and synonyms somewhere between $70,000-$80,000. Good money, but not that much more than any other white collar job, and less than most established professions.

Kaius  ·  4190 days ago  ·  link  ·  

True.

I know of some contractors working in Backbone that can make huge sums from 3-6 month contracts but those are few and far between.

user-inactivated  ·  4190 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh, yeah, plenty of contractors make around $100/hr, which could make them around $200,000 if they worked 40 (billable) hour weeks all year. I've never met a contractor who could line up 40 billable hours every week though.