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That looks closer to a 220~260k salary job posting.
100~110k in LA area is entry level IT.
in the rest of the world that is basically a three-job salary.
It's USD 8333 per month, or EUR 7177. I wouldn't say 3 jobs, but pretty good even if it has to feed a whole family and/or taxes are high.
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
Yeah I was gonna say. I didn't understand what people were complaining about, that's loads of money to me. I know stuff's more expensive in the US but it's not that much more expensive that 100k isn't an insane amount of money to live off.
This job is just north of Beverly Hills. $110k isn’t gonna buy you much, certainly not a home
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.
That's about 5-6k a month pay, with rent around 3-4k a month
100k/12≈8k, including taxes, after taxes idk depends where you live. My rent is the majority of my income, and I make much less than that, so the absolute amount of money I have after paying for things like rent and utilities, to spend on food, is much less too, even if we assume the same % of income going to rent. Again I'm not saying things aren't more expensive in the US, but it is still a lot of money. You aren't going to be struggling financially. My friends in the US make much less than that. Maybe you'd be less well-off than peers who do the same job, but I hope you realise that for a lot of people elsewhere in the world, that'd be 3 salaries already.
Yeah its not a bad pay, my wife makes close to that amount, I make less and we were able to buy a house after we split the mortgage with her parents instead of paying two rents, we are comfortable just a bit cramped and now have about two hour commute a day, my job offers free ev charging so that saves us about $500 a month we used to spend on gas
TBF I am offering 40k to hire someone who should do frontend, backend, GPU shader optimization, database design optimization and API design.
I have been told this requires a full team of experts. I am not a software engineer, I took the time to study and this is what I've been doing the past 4 years. This person will earn more than I do.
You just described 6 jobs for the price of 1/3 of one. The only people who will apply are bullshit artists who lie about being able to do the work