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Re:GitLab Direction by czechdeveloper on Monday July 23, 2018 @08:00AM (#17592093)
This is really interesting. I live in Czech away from Prague and made a joke on local dev meetup that "I will not work for 22k". Answer was "everyone here wishes to work for 22k". I don't think anyone I know here makes anything close to 100k even in Prague.

I should investigate this bit more to get closer to SF salaries if possible.

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Re:GitLab Direction by nathan_f77 on Monday July 23, 2018 @10:31AM (#17593012)
22k USD is far too low for a good developer. I’ve met a few developers from Eastern European countries that charge $100+ USD per hour.

You will always be able to find work at ~$70 per hour if you join TopTal. It should be easy to book projects for 30 hours per week and earn $100k USD per year. (Or you can work 6 hours per week to make $22k, if that’s all you need.)

That’s still on the low end for web/mobile dev. Top developers will charge 2x or 3x that amount (but you won’t find that work on Toptal.)

Full-time salaries will be lower than contract work, but it shouldn’t be difficult to find a remote web/mobile development job that pays $80k. (And that’s still very low for a good developer.)

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