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Nearly 40% of software engineers will only work remotely (2023)

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72 points jakey_bakey | 2 comments | 22 Oct 24 17:50 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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999900000999 ◴[22 Oct 24 18:24 UTC] No.41917157[source]▶
Ohh I'll come back into the office for the right price.

Let's say I'm remote and making 140k. I can live wherever I want. If a recruiter was like "If you come to NYC we can hit 190k".

Think about it. After taxes that's a 25k increase. Rent will be an additional 2 to 3k a month over what I'm paying now. Plus I'm spending a minimum of 45 minutes each way commuting.

So I'm already losing money on this. At a certain point more money wouldn't even be worth it. I'd need an additional 50k take home for this to make sense, which due to how taxation works quickly prices me out the market.

Basically I have a WFH job and unless I got a ridiculous offer, I'm not giving it up. I imagine if I finally get a FAANG job with 300k TC I'd consider it.

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threatofrain ◴[22 Oct 24 18:51 UTC] No.41917420[source]▶
Seems like the greater story is landlords taxing the economy to death.
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1. ivewonyoung ◴[22 Oct 24 19:58 UTC] No.41918076[source]▶
Landlords are just like almost all the programmers reading this page, they want more money. The downstream consequences are secondary concerns at best,especially if it doesn't personally affect them.
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2. threatofrain ◴[22 Oct 24 20:55 UTC] No.41918591[source]▶
Programmers generally don't have extractive power. They don't sell water, power, land, medicine, or legal defense. They live by pure appeal or die. For the above mentioned domains it's often the reverse; you pay or you die.

It's why the poor in the US have such a difference in life expectancy.