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I've been thru off-shorting with India, China, Russia...

I'm sorta wondering what country would be next. It has to have a large enough labor pool to fill the positions, and still be cheap enough to at least look good on paper..

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My guess is most likely Africa, though I think somewhere in Central or South America would have a very strong advantage due to the narrower time offset.

at least here in Germany the biggest companies like to expand into Eastern Europe (think Slovakia, Hungary, also Russia), where these IT experts help in the German projects. They even get many of those people to learn German! The price pressure doesn't really stop there because while at first Slovakia was the way to go, now Hungary is xx% cheaper.. and so on and so on...

For the Hungarian HN readers: these are the salary ranges you should aim at when working for a German company (remotely or in Germany):

- junior: 45K - 55K - medior: 60K - 75K - senior: 75K - 90K

Although getting more than 85K as an individual contributor is not easy.

Whether in EUR or USD, those numbers will feel pretty good in Hungary.

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