Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe?

Re:Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe? by onion2k on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @10:56PM (#25771764)

In America you can compensate yourself for this risk by simply getting a job where you are paid a higher salary than the average.

If everyone does that then it just drives the average salary up. In other words, the system can't survive unless there's a strata of people at the bottom who are below average and, by your definition, relying on a government that possibly won't help them.

In Europe as most people rely on the government everyone has an incentive to vote for parties that won't fail those people.

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Re:Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe? by titanomachy on Thursday January 14, 2021 @02:23AM (#25773237)

I've struggled with this a lot. Unfortunately, the question "what's the ideal way to run a society?" is a very different one from "where's the ideal place for me to go right now?".

I'm not from America, but moving there as a high-paid, still-young software developer was a reasonable choice for me. I might advise others in my position to do the same. I'd be less likely to tell people "you should run your country more like America".

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