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Re:IT employment grew by just 700 jobs in 2023 by hotpotamus on Monday January 08, 2024 @10:34AM (#38913401)
In my experience as an American working with people in the EU (particularly the UK/Western Europe), the developers there are every bit as capable as Americans and get paid less than half of what an American would - seems like quite a deal to me.
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Re:IT employment grew by just 700 jobs in 2023 by nemo44x on Monday January 08, 2024 @10:04PM (#38921758)
You’re not including all the taxes that need to be paid and that employment bonds are far more difficult to break.

But yeah, EU engineers are very good in my experience.

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Re:IT employment grew by just 700 jobs in 2023 by hotpotamus on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @06:34AM (#38924918)
In the US there are also taxes and a huge expense in the form of private health insurance - my employer says costs increased 9% this year. I don’t know that it balances, but there are additional costs to employers in the US as well.
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Re:IT employment grew by just 700 jobs in 2023 by nemo44x on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @08:34AM (#38925970)
Indeed - they’re much higher in EU though. Also until recently you could deduct 100% of a USA employees salary for tax reasons and that has recently been changed.
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