> I would have loved to hire them at $120-140k, but for $175k I can easily find people with 5x more years of experience.
Where are you easily finding someone with 20 years experience for 175k?
Where are you easily finding someone with 20 years experience for 175k?
This actually matches my recent job-search experience.
More specifically: The number of job postings advertising > $200k seems way down from a few years ago. (At least for U.S. remote who's not an expert in distributed systems development.)
Especially after the recent mass layoffs from Google, Meta, etc., there are a lot of very senior devs competing for those sub-$200k positions.
“20 years of experience” is meaningless. The difference in 7-8 years and 20 is meaningless. This is coming from someone who has 25+ years
Look at salaries for well known non tech companies like Delta, Coke, Home Depot, or UPS. I know those off the top of my head because they have a heavy presence in my former hometown (Atlanta). Also look at insurance companies.
Please tell me all of these fields where you can on average make more with just a four year degree.
Let me put it this way. I had a friend who worked in Finance at Amazon and his $1.2 million dollar 2400 square foot home that was 20 years old was relatively shitty compared to the $350K home I had built in the burbs of Atlanta in 2016 that was 1000 square feet larger than his.
Yes I know about Seattle salaries - I turned down a chance to interview for a role at Amazon Retail as an SDE because there was no way in hell I was going to relocate to Seattle and deal with the high prices and shitty weather.
However, I did get a remote role working (full time) at AWS ProServe.
BTW, I had my 3200 square foot house built in the “good school system” in 2016 making $135K.
People making $150K (which puts you in the top 20% of earners) are not going around homeless