Everytime I see people talk about developer salaries they seem absurdely high. $30/h would be insane for me, but that seems to be a severe underpayment in the US.
I work 09-17(9am-5pm) five days a week for a monthly salary of ~$3850 pre-taxes, and roughly ~$2860 after taxes. This is roughly $22.5 an hour. I'm a junior programmer working in the games industry with about 3 years of professional experience, my salary has roughly increased by 9.5% since I first started.
However, where I live we don't pay for medical care, we don't need dental insurance, at least not in the same capacity that you do in the US. The only monthly payouts I have is a home insurance, power, water, internet, phone and mortage, plus food and living supplies. Food for two people roughly cost me and my partner $500 per month, and insurance plus power etc is like $250 a month, and mortage is $850 a month with about $110 000 to go for an appartment with two large rooms plus a toilet and a kitchen and a balcony, and above standard living standards I would say, no student debt. Some of these expenses are split between the two of us aswell.
Since were two people I get to invest and save roughly $600 a month, and enjoy life with about $600 each month, and then some over for emergency savings and such. Over the past five years Ive been able to invest about $30000, and live a comfortable life, I feel like there is nothing that I need that I cannot afford. Obviously Id have more expenses if we had children, but I couls just invest less and spend less on tech hobbies that I have, no problem.
What Im getting at is, do people in the US get payed so much more, because you have to pay a lot of insurances, and more expensive housing and all that? Or do you actually just make more money and live more luxurious lives? I really have no clue, would be great to get some insight.
P.S: On mobile, sorry for any horrible formating.
EDIT: I know some of my coworkers with ~10 years more of experience make upwards of $4700 - $5250 before taxes, but theyre all also senior devs whom have specialized in some fields.
Submitted July 30, 2021 at 08:59AM by qvantry https://ift.tt/3l9oAzL
