• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    170k for running a company? Shit. I wouldn’t do that. You can make just as much being a halfway competent developer, and it’s way less stress.

        • FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr
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          Funnily enough, it shows the localised amount.

          For me in France it shows 50k€ to 69k€, so $58k to $80k at current exchange rates

          It just confirms that this is USA only haha

          Btw glassdoor sucks. Forces you to have an account and register work shit

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            28 minutes ago

            And a 80k$ salary in France amounts to around 125k$ cost for the employer. So 170k$ isn’t that much - I actually know French developers and network engineers that make similar money. The French ITsec architect I interviewed last year would have cost me (converted) around 150k$.

            So 170k$ is absolutely not out of the normal range here.

            Talking about France: The French government could start to properly support matrix.org as they use it for tChap. The same goes for Germany with the “Behördenmessenger”

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            44 minutes ago

            Listed salaries are almost always what the employee pays, not what it costs the company. In the US, this includes the payroll tax, and cost of “benefits,” like healthcare and unemployment insurance, and is referred to as the burdened rate. This is separate from the income tax the employee has to pay to the government, mind you.

            The burdened rate for most employees at the companies I’ve worked for in the US is like 20-50% higher than the salary paid. Not sure exactly how it works in France, but I do know there’s a pretty complex payroll tax companies have to pay. I think it’s something like 40% at the salary you quoted.

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          1 hour ago

          Just looked on that link for the UK. The average is listed as £63k, which is $85k.

          So you’re not exactly disproving the point that that type of high salary is a US thing.

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      6 hours ago

      It must not be that stressful if you have $170k leftover to pay yourself.

      Most people work more stressful jobs for considerably less. We should stop giving CEOs a pass.

      This shouldn’t need to be said, but most people are useful idiots so here we are.

      • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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        2 hours ago

        You’re missing the point. There are easier jobs in the same industry for the same pay.

        We’re not comparing tech CEO to roofers. We’re comparing them to other people in tech.