• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    170k for running a company? Shit. I wouldn’t do that. You can make just as much being a halfway competent developer, and it’s way less stress.

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      12 days ago

      It must not be that stressful if you have $170k leftover to pay yourself.

      Most people work more stressful jobs for considerably less. We should stop giving CEOs a pass.

      This shouldn’t need to be said, but most people are useful idiots so here we are.

      • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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        12 days ago

        You’re missing the point. There are easier jobs in the same industry for the same pay.

        We’re not comparing tech CEO to roofers. We’re comparing them to other people in tech.

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          12 days ago

          Uhh, no.

          This is directly the point: Most people work more stressful jobs for considerably less. We should stop giving CEOs a pass.

          Oh, and don’t forget about this one!

          but most people are useful idiots so here we are.

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          12 days ago

          Just looked on that link for the UK. The average is listed as £63k, which is $85k.

          So you’re not exactly disproving the point that that type of high salary is a US thing.

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          12 days ago

          Funnily enough, it shows the localised amount.

          For me in France it shows 50k€ to 69k€, so $58k to $80k at current exchange rates

          It just confirms that this is USA only haha

          Btw glassdoor sucks. Forces you to have an account and register work shit

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            12 days ago

            You can’t just look at the exchange rate. You have to look at cost and standard of living.

            Someone in the US making 100k is not doing as well as someone in France making 70k€

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            12 days ago

            80k plus all of society’s trappings of France. Dude, it’s not even a comparison. Worker’s rights, healthcare, public transit, safety, security…

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              11 days ago

              Indeed, but it’s understandably a super high amount compared to what we get. If you’re in good shape, you get way more money. If not, you probably get (a lot) less.

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                    11 days ago

                    Right. For perspective, I once paid $200 for a single Xray (needed 3, total $600, not counting the doctors bill). And that’s with health insurance.

                    If you have to go to urgent care, expect to pay close to $1000 for simple needs, much higher than that for more complex needs. An ambulance ride can cost upwards of $5000, and an airlift is several times that.

                    So better not be too much into sports, or trauma will drain your bank account.

                    Then you add the complete absence of consumers rights and little to no oversight on industrial activity. Lead and PFA poisoned water, food additives that are banned in most of the developed world, sugar in everything,… It’s near impossible not to get sick here.

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            12 days ago

            And a 80k$ salary in France amounts to around 125k$ cost for the employer. So 170k$ isn’t that much - I actually know French developers and network engineers that make similar money. The French ITsec architect I interviewed last year would have cost me (converted) around 150k$.

            So 170k$ is absolutely not out of the normal range here.

            Talking about France: The French government could start to properly support matrix.org as they use it for tChap. The same goes for Germany with the “Behördenmessenger”

            • FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr
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              11 days ago

              So 170k$ isn’t that much

              If that’s the amount the company pays, then yea. If this is the amount the employee receives, then that’s a lot. Like really.