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320 points mfiguiere | 5 comments | 20 May 25 18:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.865s | source
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lallysingh ◴[20 May 25 19:15 UTC] No.44044877[source]▶
$250 a month. Oh my.
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1. SoftTalker ◴[20 May 25 20:00 UTC] No.44045315[source]▶
About an hour of a senior developer's fully-loaded cost.
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2. paxys ◴[20 May 25 20:54 UTC] No.44045827[source]▶
And less than an hour of an external consultant's time.
3. throwaway2037 ◴[21 May 25 04:29 UTC] No.44048279[source]▶
To be clear, 8hrs/day, 40hrs/week, 50weeks/year is about 2,000 hours. Are you really saying that "senior developers" make 250USD * 2,000 = 500K USD? 250K is more like it, and only in very high cost locations -- Silicon Valley or NYC. More like 150K in rich countries, but not the richest city. Hell, 100K EUR can get you some very good developers on the European continent.
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4. hollerith ◴[21 May 25 04:32 UTC] No.44048294[source]▶
In the US, the salary is only about half the cost of an employee: the rest is taxes, cost of benefits like health care, etc.
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5. throwaway2037 ◴[25 May 25 03:35 UTC] No.44085326{3}[source]▶
I believe it for normies making 60-80k, but not elite level devs making 250k+.