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Serious question: Who earns (other than C-level) $150 an hour in a sane (non-US) world?

by warkanlock 2y ago

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bearjaws 2y ago
US salaries are sane when compared to what value people produce for their companies. Many argue they are too low.
- suddenlybananas 2y ago
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maxlamb 2y ago
Most consultants with more than 3 years of experience are billed at $150/hr or more
- drusepth 2y ago
  Ironically, the freelance consulting world is largely on fire due to the lowered barrier of entry and flood of new consultants using AI to perform at higher levels, driving prices down simply through increased supply. I wouldn't be surprised if AI was also eating consultants from the demand side as well, enabling would-be employers to do a higher % of tasks themselves that they would have previously needed to hire for.
- _fat_santa 2y ago
  > billed That's what they are billed at, what they take home from that is probably much lower. At my org we bill folks out for ~$150/hr and their take home is ~$80/hr
  - bena 2y ago
    Yeah, at a place where I worked, we billed at around $150. Then there was an escalating commision based on amount billed.
jwpapi 2y ago
I do start at $300/hr I didn’t just set that, I need to set that to best serve.
syndicatedjelly 2y ago
My firm's advertised billing rate for my time is $175/hour as a Sr Software Engineer. I take home ~$80/hour, accounting for benefits and time off. If I freelanced I could presumably charge my firm's rate, or even more. This is in a mid-COL city in the US, not a coastal tier 1 city with prime software talent that could charge even more.
rank0 2y ago
Why is high salaries an insane thing?
- SoftTalker 2y ago
  On the one hand, there's the moral argument: we need janitors and plumbers and warehouse workers and retail workers and nurses and teachers and truck drivers for society to function. Why should their time be valued less than anyone elses? On the other hand there's the economic argument: the supply of people who can stock shelves is greater than the supply of people who can "create value" at a tech company, so the latter deserve more pay. Depending on how you look at the world, high salaries can seem insane.
  - rank0 2y ago
    I don’t even remotely understand what you’re saying is wrong. Median salaries are significantly higher in the US compared to any other region. Nominal and PPP adjusted AND accounting for taxes/social benefits. This is bad? Those jobs you referenced do not have the same requirements nor the same wages…seems like your just clumping all of those together as “lower class” so you can be champion of the downtrodden

Serious question: Who earns (other than C-level) $150 an hour in a sane (non-US) world?

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bearjaws 2y ago

US salaries are sane when compared to what value people produce for their companies. Many argue they are too low.

suddenlybananas 2y ago
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maxlamb 2y ago

Most consultants with more than 3 years of experience are billed at $150/hr or more

drusepth 2y ago
Ironically, the freelance consulting world is largely on fire due to the lowered barrier of entry and flood of new consultants using AI to perform at higher levels, driving prices down simply through increased supply. I wouldn't be surprised if AI was also eating consultants from the demand side as well, enabling would-be employers to do a higher % of tasks themselves that they would have previously needed to hire for.
_fat_santa 2y ago
> billed That's what they are billed at, what they take home from that is probably much lower. At my org we bill folks out for ~$150/hr and their take home is ~$80/hr
- bena 2y ago
  Yeah, at a place where I worked, we billed at around $150. Then there was an escalating commision based on amount billed.

jwpapi 2y ago

I do start at $300/hr I didn’t just set that, I need to set that to best serve.

syndicatedjelly 2y ago

My firm's advertised billing rate for my time is $175/hour as a Sr Software Engineer. I take home ~$80/hour, accounting for benefits and time off. If I freelanced I could presumably charge my firm's rate, or even more. This is in a mid-COL city in the US, not a coastal tier 1 city with prime software talent that could charge even more.

rank0 2y ago

Why is high salaries an insane thing?

SoftTalker 2y ago
On the one hand, there's the moral argument: we need janitors and plumbers and warehouse workers and retail workers and nurses and teachers and truck drivers for society to function. Why should their time be valued less than anyone elses? On the other hand there's the economic argument: the supply of people who can stock shelves is greater than the supply of people who can "create value" at a tech company, so the latter deserve more pay. Depending on how you look at the world, high salaries can seem insane.
- rank0 2y ago
  I don’t even remotely understand what you’re saying is wrong. Median salaries are significantly higher in the US compared to any other region. Nominal and PPP adjusted AND accounting for taxes/social benefits. This is bad? Those jobs you referenced do not have the same requirements nor the same wages…seems like your just clumping all of those together as “lower class” so you can be champion of the downtrodden