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Re:The Disappearing American Grad Student by tomaha on Saturday November 04, 2017 @12:35AM (#15623806)
Or the $500k+ you can earn. Most of the people in that region have at least a masters degree and likely more.
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Re:The Disappearing American Grad Student by enraged_camel on Saturday November 04, 2017 @01:28AM (#15623935)
Outside of a few very specific fields, I have trouble believing that a Master's degree will result in $500k+ salaries.

But if you have data, I'd love to see it.

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Re:The Disappearing American Grad Student by tanilama on Saturday November 04, 2017 @01:41AM (#15623956)
Not true. Average programmer salary for foreigner is more like 100K, which is pretty good already
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Re:The Disappearing American Grad Student by delphinius81 on Saturday November 04, 2017 @01:13AM (#15623906)
If you focus on computer vision / machine learning at least
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Re:The Disappearing American Grad Student by jonathankoren on Saturday November 04, 2017 @04:59AM (#15624290)
The vast majority of these people are not pulling home $500k per year salaries, or even total comp.
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