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Re:Etsy is laying off 11% of its staff by drekk on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @07:18PM (#38636165)
The cost of living is ~30% lower in Paris compared to a major US city like Los Angeles. If you factor in what people pay here for healthcare premiums you've accounted for most of the difference in salary. That's before we even get into things like childcare, education, or transportation. If you really want to do an apples-apples comparison for income you should also take into account the difference in expenditures.

Also, how many SWEs in SV make $400k? Do you think they're a representative sample of white collar workers for that city?

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Re:Etsy is laying off 11% of its staff by twelve40 on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @10:23PM (#38716650)
> factor in what people pay here for healthcare premiums you've accounted for most of the difference in salary

10x means 90% difference, all consumed by the more expensive healthcare? That's like one order of magnitude wrong.

> how many SWEs in SV make $400k?

Saved you a google: > The average total compensation of a Software Engineer in San Francisco Bay Area, US is $242,000.

the topic was programmers, all "white collar workers" is not relevant to this conversation.

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