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Re:Who still needs the office? U.S. companies start cutting ... by movedx on Thursday July 23, 2020 @07:00PM (#23933714)
> London is notorious for low SWEng salaries

I was actually going to challenge this before I did a bit of research and discovered you're right - the average wage for a software engineer is £47,500 (https://www.cwjobs.co.uk/salary-checker/average-it-salary). That's ugly.

I'm from Liverpool originally (live abroad now) and I have friends in Manchester earning £50-60k... in the North of England. That's a big wage in that area.

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Re:Who still needs the office? U.S. companies start cutting ... by jumhyn on Friday July 24, 2020 @11:03AM (#23940324)
The stat you link appears to be for "IT" jobs across all of the UK. Restricting the search to "Software Engineer" and "London"[0] bumps the number up quite a bit to £72,500 as of when I checked.

[0]: https://www.cwjobs.co.uk/salary-checker/average-software-eng...

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Re:Who still needs the office? U.S. companies start cutting ... by movedx on Saturday July 25, 2020 @07:34PM (#23953206)
That's a good catch. I hadn't realised it was targeting the country because I specifically searched for London. Silly me.

72k in London isn't a lot :)

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Re:Who still needs the office? U.S. companies start cutting ... by drexlspivey on Thursday July 23, 2020 @08:26PM (#23934317)
That's for IT though? Software engineer average is £72500 based on your link
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Re:Who still needs the office? U.S. companies start cutting ... by rootusrootus on Friday July 24, 2020 @01:36AM (#23936102)
Anecdotally, the one senior dev we have on my team from London makes mid/upper 40s. I was astounded when I found that out.
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Re:Who still needs the office? U.S. companies start cutting ... by disgruntledphd2 on Friday July 24, 2020 @04:40AM (#23937162)
Yeah, even both Google and FB pay engineers pretty terribly in London. I was once asked to move there, and I refused unless they accounted for cost of living changes. They didn't, so I stayed working at my original office.
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