JAnderton

You should factor in cost of living expenses before saying that. If the 13 year old in the US pays taxes and has to run a house on that money (even if it is a small rented apartment with expenses such as food and groceries for himself), the comparison with an adult doing the same in India /might/ be a bit more comparable.

Alas, that page doesn't have the ability to bias cost of living expenses without which any regional salary comparison becomes tougher to compare.

Funny, I had the same conversation yesterday. A specific non-compete to say you can't work on the precise product segment (say, if you're at Facebook, you can't work on Google+ directly or something more specific like a segment your company is developing a patent in) for "x months" seems something that you can sign off if market segment is such.

If I pay for a car, I'm paying for a product. If I pay someone to clean my garden, I'm buying his time, expertise etc. for the time to clean my garden. I look at me being paid at work the same way. I'm paid to work for 'n' hrs a day, 'm' days a week per year for cost 'x'. I provide you service and I get paid in return. What I do after work, as long as I don't infringe on any IP from work, is my business.