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Re:X to pay €550k to employee fired for not replying to yes-... by lazide on Saturday August 17, 2024 @07:21AM (#41273653)
Total comp for experienced software engineers in Silicon Valley exceeded $750k/yr for several years.

Your argument makes no sense.

It was a bubble, but a bubble that has been inflated for a very long time.

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Re:X to pay €550k to employee fired for not replying to yes-... by AnthonyMouse on Saturday August 17, 2024 @07:50PM (#41279013)
Whether software engineers making $750k/year is a bubble has nothing to do with my argument at all. The average annual wages in the US are ~$77,000, compared to ~$55,000 for France or the UK.
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Re:X to pay €550k to employee fired for not replying to yes-... by lazide on Saturday August 17, 2024 @08:08PM (#41279099)
Cite? Overall in the US I’m showing about $60k. [https://www.usatoday.com/money/blueprint/business/hr-payroll...].

For software engineers, it absolutely matters. For the same reason it’s going to be a pretty weird discussion about Actor/Actress pay if you just ignore Hollywood.

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Re:X to pay €550k to employee fired for not replying to yes-... by AnthonyMouse on Saturday August 17, 2024 @08:10PM (#41279111)
2023 column on the right side (numbers are PPP):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_w...

> For software engineers, it absolutely matters.

The bubble means you currently get more in San Francisco, sure, but take the bubble away and you'd still expect the US average to be higher than the EU average as it is in other industries where there isn't a bubble.

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