100x Developers

Re:100x Developers by makingstuffs on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @12:46PM (#50456197)

> 10x a salary of $70.000/year (~avg salary in USA) is 700k€/year. Imagine the lifestyle change

No, no it isn't.

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Re:100x Developers by goodmythical on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @01:01PM (#50456403)

"only" ~€631,113.70

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Re:100x Developers by sobellian on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @01:13PM (#50456539)

Also, an average SWE salary in the US must be way higher than $70k.

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Re:100x Developers by goodmythical on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @01:33PM (#50456804)

In a word, yes.

BLS doesn't make sharing links easy so here's a screenshot: https://files.catbox.moe/irwwwb.png

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Re:100x Developers by kstrauser on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @08:08PM (#50461604)

That's an empty file.

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Re:100x Developers by krenel on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @02:22PM (#50457351)

OP here. I literally asked Brave Search for "avg salary for a developer in the USA" and AI returned that number.

How ironic. I'm a 0.8x blog writer now, thanks to AI :joy:

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