And people still get mad when we give honest feedback about compensation.

Shout-out to the recruiter who tried to convince me to take a 60k paycut because nobody will pay my current rate ( the one I was already being paid ). I strive to reach your level of audacity one day.

When you consider that IT is used by everyone and often the entire company is built on IT and communication i would hire properly

Yes, that's pretty normal outside of IT companies and gigantic non-IT companies.

You have to have so much more reserves in the US because of the broken health care system, and the car dependence. I live in Germany and my wife and I were thinking about how much more we'd need to save and we found out that we didn't need that much. Healthcare is basically free, we don't have a car, we had enough for a new set of appliances and months of rent. All that with about a half of that salary. But in the US you can easily go broke with that amount of money if you get sick or have car troubles. Also depending on the state poor job security.

This job is just north of Beverly Hills. $110k isn’t gonna buy you much, certainly not a home

That's about 5-6k a month pay, with rent around 3-4k a month

You aren't going to get close to that amount per month after taxes and health care. Its definitely not minimum wage, its around a teacher salary, or entry level office worker

The salary itself is a decent one. Quite above the average. Either way it is what I can offer.

I didn't say it's difficult to find workers: found plenty good workers for about half that salary.

I did not start interviews yet, I'm confident I will find someone.

But you have a functional social safety net

I grew up in poverty, I know what this social safety net looked like 20 years ago. It's been hollowed out by a decade of alt-right governance since. They've pushed the non-white welfare king/queen narrative hard.

Living on subsistence minimum isn't really a comfortable life. You have to constantly apply for it and get scrutinised, and sometimes you get automatically denied because the government has applied a quota that försäkringskassan has to fill; it's luck of the draw.

It's certainly not something I'd ever view as a nice stress-free fallback to recover from, it's a full-time job in and of itself, and that's not counting the critique you have to put up with from society for using the system as it is intended.

insurance and retirement covered with your taxes.

Ish. Current retirees are covered by current taxpayers. My retirement will be covered by future taxpayers. This has lead to the retirement age being bumped up a couple of times the past few years, because there's not enough taxes coming in to cover retirement. I don't expect to ever actually retire.

The average pension income currently is 16400 crowns a month before taxes. My rent is 8.4k and it goes up with several hundred a year. Pensions generally remain fairly static.

By insurance I guess you mean healthcare. This is largely true, we have a high-cost protection, and that includes visits so if you buy enough meds or visit the doctors enough each year, the high cost protection kicks in, it's currently at approximately 3000 crowns.

My a-kassa isn't free, nor is it tax funded. I personally pay for that on a monthly basis. It's also tied to you looking for work.

There are upsides and downsides to everything. Things get bad here, too.

Similar here. I'm in the US but not one of the wealthy states or tech havens. I've got 8 years of cloud admin and integrations development and make about $85k/yr (70k Eur?). I'm one of the best paid people I know I my area.

There's largely still above average working conditions for the people that do land a job in tech, but right now the job security is rather low.

The thing is, if you're managing an important project. The companies want to pay extra, to ensure they're having decent people hired and have their time if something breaks out of hours.

But remote hirers, do also factor regional factors into account. Most US companies okay with remote workers, will have payranges per state. Most European companies, have at least pay ranges per country. You're getting paid more in Denmark than you'd be in Hungary as an example. To account for cost of living as well as local competition

Yes. But it won't be written like this.

A company that values it's tech workers and that has a decent salary will write a better post, then have you work 3 jobs, because they'll have other decent tech managers to write it.

This post was written by HR at after a Google post for "good it manager skills' for a cfo who doesn't understand a word and just wants it done for cheap.

Younger cs students are just fucked BTW. Despite the screeches AI bad, it's not. It is eating up junior coding jobs and I'm not sure what to say to them or about how new people will learn to code when I have as many agents as I can muster up in my brains context. From a pure velocity perspective there is just no way to compete. I'd never choose, training a junior dev over AI even in it's current state. It's just not efficient to train someone to hand code and learn about what will break, who is going to do stupid shit, architecture, etc. but you don't learn it well being an operator.

I'm guessing It would put you in the bottom 10% in the area mentioned in the job listing.

It's low skill and easily replaced.

We don't pay based on how hard.

Around $18.50

I know it's a joke, but in case you decide to go for a position like this in the UK: you probably wouldn't make it past the technical with those examples. Mainly, data migration is a system migration process (rsync might be a tiny part of the process but it's absolutely not what they're asking about) and endpoint security is not the same thing as an antivirus.

Honestly it's pretty standard stuff you'd find in a posting for a senior technical position, but it's just... three senior tech positions rolled into one (Four if they actually want training plans) and for low-journey pay. Pretty damn ridiculous.