Re:Beyond Spotify and iZettle: How Sweden became Europe’s ca...
by rightbyte on Saturday September 08, 2018 @10:39AM
(#17940998)
If we assume Danish wages are similar to Swedish, the $60k bracket should be the most common, actually.
I don't really trust these fantastic Silicon Valley wage statistics. There seems to be bad coverage over a wide range of companies, and it mostly seems to be self-reported in a non-organized way.
BLS collects a wider range of statistics than PayScale or what not the HR departments are spamming with good reviews and salaries.
So the difference is 1.1k USD more a month for the median Bay-area programmer compared to Stockholm in employer cost. It's not really raining VC money over the SF area programmers compared to e.g. Stockholm, where there is more or less none VC money.
I don't really trust these fantastic Silicon Valley wage statistics. There seems to be bad coverage over a wide range of companies, and it mostly seems to be self-reported in a non-organized way.
BLS collects a wider range of statistics than PayScale or what not the HR departments are spamming with good reviews and salaries.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/silicon-valley-salaries...
To even base an article on those numbers is borderline fraud.
For "San Francisco-Redwood City-South San Francisco, CA Metropolitan Division" BLS reports $106k mean wage for programmers.
https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151131.htm
Swedish Engineering union reports mean wage:
69 543 USD/y in Stockholm
91 400 USD/y including payroll tax.
So the difference is 1.1k USD more a month for the median Bay-area programmer compared to Stockholm in employer cost. It's not really raining VC money over the SF area programmers compared to e.g. Stockholm, where there is more or less none VC money.