If ya'll are looking for a remote security engineer from Europe hit me up. :)
For those numbers I'll walk the servers into the customers myself.
So the extremely high salary is still a net positive compared to EU
With this in mind, it's just a good salary. Until they have competition squeezing them on margins it looks like an OK approach. At some point their board most likely won't agree with paying some people below market rates for important roles and other more fungible roles paying 2-3x market rates but while they can keep doing it, it's great free marketing.
Plenty of that in London unfortunately and our salaries are half.
>Healthcare
And not so much of that... despite paying tax for it anyway.
Income tax: 34% total (top marginal rate of 39%).
Leaving $133k.
Other taxes (GST~VAT 15%, city rates, high petrol excise, etcetera) will easily take another $10k. Interest on your home is not deductible (NZ has very few deductables). People earning six figures will often pay for private health insurance and medical fees on top of the socialised healthcare - maybe another few thousand.
homes, etc is true though and we just need to build more inventory IMO. but there are tons of areas with affordable homes, they just aren't near the big cities like NYC or SF or LA
I doubt my Aspen vacation home developer will accept payment in startup stock.
I took a base-pay cut to work at Oxide. Zero regrets.
