I could earn 3x to 4x that if I moved to a major city. I've got a couple decades experience and earn about $50k (USD) in regional Australia, mostly back end with some front end. We can work from home if we prefer (I prefer the office, but sometimes I work from home). The office is spacious, everyone has a large desk and every second desk is deliberately kept empty, so if you need to work closely with someone for a week or three you can move to the desk next to them. My home is in a wonderful location, with an amazing (and very affordable) school for my kid a short bicycle ride away, and my work colleagues (even the boss, and my boss's boss) are great people. Mostly though, I the qualify of life is great here. And it's better cover than some US health insurers charge a thousand dollars a month for. My income is too high to be eligible for fully government funded healthcare, and employers only pay for your healthcare if you they are at fault for your medical issue, but I only pay about a thousand dollars a year for private health insurance to cover anything the government won't. Parking is free, and a few steps from the office. For example there are no toll roads here, and my relatively long commute to the office (outskirts of the city to the inner city) takes just 15 minutes. The same home a major city here here would be easily $1.5m, and in some cities around the world it'd cost far more than that. I earn a fairly low modest salary and I'm fine with it.įor example we paid about $185k (USD) for our small home in regional Australia. Surprise expenses keep popping up and somehow I'm still broke.ĭon't forget to compare cost of living and quality of life. I am almost at the point where I can pay down debt and then, maybe, plan for a family vacation. I learned to code in my mid-30s and made it to team lead while still in my very-upper-late-mid-30s so I have a lot of impostor syndrome, but for the first time in my life I don't feel woefully underpaid. I left in October for another company as a Lead Software Engineer at $145k. Great work/life balance but that doesn't pay the bills - $75k in CT with a family is not sustainable. I then left and went to a non-profit in the education industry for $75k as a Software Engineer. I got screwed over (poor management decisions) a year and a half later and had to go back to Level 1 tech support (I would have been Level 3 if I didn't go to Engineering) for their tech support salary cap of $56k, just to stay employed. I moved to an internal SW Eng team there in 2018 and went from $53k as a Level 2 tech to 65k as an Associate Application Engineer. I worked in tech support for a Unicorn in CT (USA) and learned to code in 2017/2018 in my mid-30's.
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