Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?

Re:Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of m... by golergka on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @04:12AM (#27115515)

Other comments are right, $11k a month is a very high engineering salary anywhere in Europe.

However, during the last year there's been more and more american companies that offer these kind of rates remotely. So, a good developer could make this, and even more, while living in Europe, although you might have not consider him "working" here (whatever this means in terms of remote work anyway).

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Re:Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of m... by exdsq on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @04:27AM (#27115628)

Yeah I see dozens on the Braintrust platform literally daily. Some remote roles have gone up to $240ph which would be absolutely insane in Europe (or most of the US).

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Re:Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of m... by jeltz on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @04:27AM (#27115629)

Yeah, $11k is a very high salary in Sweden. Almost the only way to make that as a developer is to be an independent contractor.

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Re:Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of m... by cycomanic on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @05:15AM (#27115926)

But he essentially is an independent contractor, that's the point. And talking about Sweden, you miss the pension, health insurance and the employer contribution to the taxes.

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Re:Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of m... by CRConrad on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @04:40PM (#27134900)

How is he an "independent contractor" when everyone -- not everyone here, but he himself and his, ahem, employers -- is talking about him as an employee, and he's been there for years? Never mind the GitHub commits, analyse how many times in the last year he's had to hunt for next month's gig.

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