Re:U.S. Employers Struggle to Match Workers with Open Jobs
by expertentipp on Friday September 01, 2017 @12:16PM
(#15149821)
This sounds like a recruiter/HR person/manager: "in Germany we would have to pay you 60-80k EUR, in the country you are currently in 40k USD is generous... why? look at Numbeo - it cannot lie!"
Re:U.S. Employers Struggle to Match Workers with Open Jobs
by ThePawnBreak on Friday September 01, 2017 @05:47PM
(#15152641)
> The Eastern Europe "market rate" is lower than the US because cost of living is.
It's the other way around.
The Eastern Europe "market rate" is lower than the US because cost of living is.
I assure you that people earning USD 40K in Eastern Europe have a quality of life comparable to their "market rate" paid US engineer (as people in the same thread are saying).
As quality of life improves (also helped by US companies paying above-average rates, compared to the local ones), so will wages and cost of living in general.
It's basic economics, it has nothing to do with "deserving" something.
If you expect US companies should pay US wages where the market rate is well below that, your expectations are simply not realistic.