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0 pointssam_goody2y ago0 comments

I sometimes forgot that there even are programmers anywhere in the world that are making 150k; maybe one day I will fly to the States just to meet you guys.

Some of the comments on HN have a vibe of "Let them eat cake" - they are out of touch with how most of us plebs in the rest of the world are living.

And then I realize that the rich influence all the decision making that affects the poor - and it scares me.

(BTW: I assume this number is yearly; $12.5K/mo. Which is multiple times the average dev pay out where I live. Even in the States, I assume no one pulls $150K/monthly, amiright?)

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Justsignedup2y ago

In new york with even a remotely small amount of looking for seed startups, an engineer with 1 year of experience can easily get 120k. 150k would be maybe 4 years of experience. As a senior engineer you can get 170-220k easily at a series A startup.

This number is doubled or trippled for one of the big boys because of directly tradable equity.

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