Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship

Re:Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship by jrochkind1 on Thursday August 05, 2021 @02:02PM (#28077288)

Googling, just the first one that comes up, suggests that median income for "software developer" in USA is $86,523. Meaning half make less, half make more. $100K is the 75th percentile, meaning 75% make less. (https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Software-Developer-Sal...)

Some people that work in especially high-paid sub-industries have a mistaken idea of what typical "technical enough to frequent this web site" (?!) people make.

And even if most software developers did make over $100K, it could still be a lot of money? The median income in USA as a whole looks to be about $52K, with $100K being about 83rd percentile (83% of USA makes less than $100K).

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Re:Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship by AlphaSite on Thursday August 05, 2021 @08:21PM (#28081777)

I don’t think that zip recruiter data is accurate, apparently the average engineer salary in Sunnyvale is 100k, where I can see new grad salaries are above 120k and do that doesn’t take into account bonuses or stocks.

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Re:Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship by emodendroket on Thursday August 05, 2021 @09:54PM (#28082429)

We can all quibble over the exact numbers but I think the point is well taken: not only does a six-figure salary place you pretty high among American workers overall, but it also puts you in a better spot than many developers. Not everybody gets to work at prestigious tech companies

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