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Re:Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How... by jaynetics on Monday January 06, 2020 @05:16AM (#21968022)
> You mention 40/80k per year being pitiful? This kind of remuneration puts you in the top 10%/5% of France population easily.

These numbers are surely off. Must be more like 40%/10%. And I'd bet that a double-digit percentage of devs earn less than 40k and only very few earn 80k. Factor in that this is a job that is concentrated in big cities with a high cost of living, and these numbers don't look that great.

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Re:Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How... by wazoox on Monday January 06, 2020 @10:35AM (#21969856)
Average net salary in France hovers at 2300€/month, median net salary is ~1800€/month. At ~3200€/month you're straight in the high 10% from official statistics.
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Re:Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How... by jaynetics on Monday January 06, 2020 @05:57PM (#21974445)
Anything I found suggested slightly higher values, but maybe official stats can only be found by googling in French?

Either way, I think all the GPs were talking about gross values. So if 1800 net is, say, 2800 gross, that is 35k/yr. In that case 40k is fairly close to the median and probably not in the top 25%.

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Re:Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How... by wazoox on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @05:21PM (#21996396)
Indeed. :)
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