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Re:Ask HN: How come YC startups offering <80k$/year? by meindnoch on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @08:52AM (#36124248)
>median salary for a developer in Spain is $30,000 a year

Whhhhaaaat? That doesn't sound right. I know a guy in Barcelona making $200k, although he works for a US company. Heck, even in Eastern Europe, with the right knowledge you can make $150k+.

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Re:Ask HN: How come YC startups offering <80k$/year? by koliber on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @08:55AM (#36124287)
That's correct. But those are the outliers, or at least at the very top of the range. The parent mentions median salary.
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Re:Ask HN: How come YC startups offering <80k$/year? by danwee on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @01:03PM (#36127374)
That's the median. It's like saying the median salary for software engineers in US is $120K/year (which is "true" if you Google it)... but then all the Silicon Valley engineers would say "whaaaat? Here the juniors can easily earn $200K/year their first year!"... So, yeah in Europe you can earn as little or as much as everywhere else (of course, Silicon Valley is still the place to earn top money)
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Re:Ask HN: How come YC startups offering <80k$/year? by qwytw on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @04:27PM (#36130269)
That's the median on some random site with very few self-reported samples...
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