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Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow
on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @11:23AM (#42794459)
If you think software engineering salaries are low in the USA, try working in Europe. A 'good' salary can be 30K or even lower after tax per year, and electricity costs twice as much as in the USA. In some places, even bottle scavengers earn more than software engineers in Europe.