[A thread for those who are curious]

Is monthly salary of USD 4,500 a below average or average salary in your country?

For a software engineer (full stack) (regardless of tech stack), experience more than 5 years.

(Please do let me know where you from as well, just want to know)

In my country (Malaysia) it is consider above average.

What's the role?
Years of experience?
Otherwise we can all be that 300k 🍆 sucker from the other post.

Let's try compare apples to apples for a change 🥹

@C0D4 sorry, I have update the rant . Forgot to be specific.

@johnmelodyme ah ok.

Then, yea that would be about 80k/ year (Aussie Buckaroos), which would be on the lower side but depending on actual experience (mid dev, not into leadership yet) wouldn't be off the mark much.

It would be way too low in Switzerland. Normal would be 100k - 150k annually or 8k-13k/mt, depending on the region and sector you work in.

In expensive US cities this would be quite low. Outside of the big cities, this would probably be about average.

Entirely dependent on country and location.

Even in a single country the living costs can be different by a factor of 10 - not joking or exaggerating.

Usually every government has a statistics "department"… that has detailed job payment statistics.

You will need to compare it with cost of living....

Though in most cases it's rather impractical, as the living costs diverge extremely.

Eg. in Germany you pay 40 % of taxes...

... But: You have a full insurance and (though it will be small) a pension, if you work long enough here.

Your degrees might not be eligible though - not only in Germany, but general problem in immigration.

Depending on what you want to do, that might be a *big* problem. (e.g. degrees for working with medical tech, etc.)

Comparing loan is mostly useless - in my opinion. Statistics aren't reliable and it's hard to get all facts straight.

In the US that’s about a junior salary, assuming this is in US dollars. If you were to move here you’d be making much much more with your experience. Junior is probably about 50-80k depending on where you live and how good you are. I’m not saying you ARE a jr, and I’m willing to bet you’ll be hired as a sr if you move to the US.

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