Salary, Are You At Your Areas Median
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@matteo-nunziati said in Salary, Are You At Your Areas Median:
What? In Italy an average IT guy is on a gross salary <40.000€ even 50.000 is a top notch salary. A lot of guys are well under 35.000
Cost of living is very different though. Homes, food, cars all cost much more in most of the US.
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@matteo-nunziati said in Salary, Are You At Your Areas Median:
What? In Italy an average IT guy is on a gross salary <40.000€ even 50.000 is a top notch salary. A lot of guys are well under 35.000
Keep in mind that that is in line with salaries in non-IT centers of the US. The big salaries are all centered around major IT job centers like NYC, NOVA, Seattle, San Francisco / Silicon Valley and Chicago.
Those high cost centers throw off the medians a bit because it would be like having London, Frankfort and Zurich lumped in. Places that pay very, very high salaries.
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Nope, below median for the state of Texas.
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@matteo-nunziati said in Salary, Are You At Your Areas Median:
@scottalanmiller said in Salary, Are You At Your Areas Median:
NOVA
what is NOVA?
Sorry, code name for NOrthern VirginiA. Virginia's state code here is VA, so it makes sense to Americans. NOVA is the metro area on the Virginia side of Washington, D.C., but does not include Washington itself. It's a large metro area with no single center and is the highest IT pay rate in the country, but the work is often terrible. NYC and SF have the best work at similar rates.
NOVA gets the government and military contracts. All of the FBI, CIA, Pentagon and such are located in NOVA and all of their "clearance required" high pay contract work is out there. NOVA is famous for being a contract, rather than an employment, based market and the cost of living is very high and quality, IMHO, is rather low.
I've worked in NOVA for much of my career and it is so awful that I commuted six hours in from New York to not have to live in NOVA.
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Ranges a lot in Wales.
Most jobs I've had in the past I would say I was under paid for the role compared to the city's. But I've been able to live off it so not much of a problem in my eyes.My current job I've just had a rise and would say it's still under what I would get for a similar role in say London, but cost of living is cheaper here so even's out I guess.
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@hobbit666 said in Salary, Are You At Your Areas Median:
Ranges a lot in Wales.
Most jobs I've had in the past I would say I was under paid for the role compared to the city's. But I've been able to live off it so not much of a problem in my eyes.My current job I've just had a rise and would say it's still under what I would get for a similar role in say London, but cost of living is cheaper here so even's out I guess.
That's the same as like Iowa and New York. Iowa or Wales would be low, no big city to raise the rates. NY and England are higher because they have NYC and London to make the rates much higher.
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@hobbit666 said in Salary, Are You At Your Areas Median:
My current job I've just had a rise and would say it's still under what I would get for a similar role in say London, but cost of living is cheaper here so even's out I guess.
Not even close when you take into account housing costs. The average cost of a house in London is, what, three times that of Wales? There's no way London salaries compensate. I nearly moved to London in 1999 and looked round flats in the centre that I could afford to buy. Regrettably, perhaps, I chose to move north. I couldn't afford anything now. I could commute to London from my current home, but the transport costs would barely cover the extra salary, never mind the extra time I'd have to spend sitting on the train.
The trouble is, there's a lot more jobs in London than Wales!
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this should help rebalance medians per country.
IF I've understood, Italy is something like at 63% of richness compared to USA. So it is expected that our salaries are less good than USA ones.
If this datum is correct on the average, my median here should be around 70-80k$ * 0.63, which leads to 44-50 k$.
translating at change rate € vs $, it's 37-47 k€.
nowdays I'm definitively a bit over. This makes sense and fits with my previous figures. Anyway I agree that here big companies generate a shift, as the perception in SMB is that the range is lowered by a 7k€ (give one take one).
In the past I was probably in the left tail of the bell (around 35k€). But I'm cosidering going that back. More fun and curriculum growth than now. And my home bills seem to fit in that lower area.
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@Carnival-Boy said in Salary, Are You At Your Areas Median:
Not even close when you take into account housing costs. The average cost of a house in London is, what, three times that of Wales?
Wales can't be that expensive!
