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Re:Ask HN: Why do companies outside the US pay so much less? by walshemj on Monday February 06, 2017 @06:48PM (#13585526)
But how does this compare to other professions say a lawyer or a medical doctor with the same experience.

I suspect in Europe and the UK in particular engineering is seen as a lower status profession - may be less so in Germany

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Re:Ask HN: Why do companies outside the US pay so much less? by Cephlin on Friday February 10, 2017 @09:08AM (#13615408)
In the UK when I tell people I'm a programmer, software engineer, web developer, systems engineer or whatever role I've had at the time, they usually ask me to fix their Windows machine... I guess that's the level of respect we get here.
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Re:Ask HN: Why do companies outside the US pay so much less? by steevenwee on Friday February 10, 2017 @05:59PM (#13619675)
In my experience that's not specific to the UK.
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