Yep. In fact I'll go one step ahead and say most COL discussions are fruitless unless you know a person's location and lifestyle (kids/dependents? students loans/debt?).
I have equity but its garbage. I know I'm being severely underpaid but after college graduation I was desperate to take the first available job offer (the salary was actually 85k at the time). What's a reasonable salary to ask for in my next job?
Junior Software Engineer, Experience: 1 years, Salary: $6k, Bonus: $0, Location: Da Nang city, Vietnam.
That salary is a half higher than the average in my city :(
So lets say I move to Vietnam with 100k (Ignoring logistics, just pretend i'm Vietnamese or whatever). That is like 15+ years worth of salary (ignoring taxes). Can I really live it up?
Job: Software Engineer Contractor, Experience: 6 years (I'm 22 and first 3 years have been part-time startups because of school, no college), Salary: £450/day - last 12 months around £110k total, Bonus: $0, Location: London, UK
Average salary before taxes for all jobs is about $1000. Developers are paid about $1500 to $2500 gross on average, so my salary (about $3400 gross) is about the absolute maximum you can make before jumping to a manager/architect role (which are really scarce).
Quality of life is good but cost of living is also surprisingly high - about the same as in a city not in the US coasts, and the extremely high taxes cut into the chance of savings.
Real estate is very expensive (according to Numbeo, 50% higher than in most of the US) and there's no easy access to mortgages (interest rates are ludicrous, you need at least 20% of the property cost up front, some expensive overhead too).
The one huge benefit is healthcare being both cheap and REALLY good (the kind of service only very rich people get in the U.S.).
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 86.5 ms ] threadDid a lot of freelancing too, up to RM5000/month.
200k base. 20k signing bonus. 30-50k yearly bonus target.
She has an event on December 11:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/get-hired-recruiter-panel-and-n...
or contact her
http://www.marianabernasconi.com/
Meta: Australia converted to USD, excl. super (401k equiv)
I'm on a high salary for AU but damn it could get double in US by the looks.
Saigon the wages can be a bit higher.
+ doing some freelancing part time @ 100€/h
About half of that goes to taxes and mandatory social security :( , take-home pay is about $2k/month.
Quality of life is good but cost of living is also surprisingly high - about the same as in a city not in the US coasts, and the extremely high taxes cut into the chance of savings.
Real estate is very expensive (according to Numbeo, 50% higher than in most of the US) and there's no easy access to mortgages (interest rates are ludicrous, you need at least 20% of the property cost up front, some expensive overhead too).
The one huge benefit is healthcare being both cheap and REALLY good (the kind of service only very rich people get in the U.S.).
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...