Holy shit...I'm living in Spain and my salary is 25K(one year of experience as a :NET web developer), the worst is that this is a a good salary for a webdeveloper in spain...

Here is an article on salary bands at major companies: https://blog.step.com/2016/04/08/an-open-source-project-for-tech-salaries/

Holy shit...I'm living in Spain and my salary is 25K(one year of experience as a :NET web developer), the worst is that this is a a good salary for a webdeveloper in spain...

"Web developer" is not on that chart. At least, not what most people call a web developer.

The lowest tier on that chart requires a 4-year degree and is doing actual software engineering tasks. They are technical work at major tech companies. It is a professional career track, the type of job that up until last decade required going to the office in a business suit.

Most of the time a "web developer" is not those things. A web developer spends their days hooking up some data to forms or building pages in drupal or wordpress or similar. No serious database work, no serious programming work, skills you can pick up with a one-week seminar plus searching the web.

$200k for a god tier engineering manager in San Francisco seems kind of low to me. Really low for Silicon Valley. I hear our server admin talking about his friends getting jobs in the area with a lot less experience and getting $150k+.

Holy shit...I'm living in Spain and my salary is 25K(one year of experience as a :NET web developer), the worst is that this is a a good salary for a webdeveloper in spain...

The real salary you earn also depends on the value of your currency, quality of life in your country, country-wide inflationary/deflationary pressures, local region expensiveness/inexpensiveness Vs taxation and generally purchasing power of your country (and including as mentioned in previous post various benefits from your company)

For example UK is a comparatively medium salary, high taxation country, but in return we enjoy free health care (NHS), fairly good public transportation, and relative low inflationary pressures. But then there is also huge regional differences- London and South east for instance is very expensive while as you go northwards it gets relatively cheaper.

So depending on all of the above your 25K could be equivalent to say 60k in the US (or may be equivalent to 15K :()

Independent of where I live I believe my skills and creativity would self-sell me to the appropriate level at the right time, but even in the worst case scenario that it doesn't - its not worth getting stressed about it, you would only work yourself up, age quicker and get more devalued :wub:

Yes I know, that's why in my post said that 25K is a 'good' salary in spain for an IT engineer(mine was a 5-year career, I think it's equivalent to a degree + master in europe, at least for other engineerings, computer science was always the black sheep of enginering in Spain so...who really knows,) with one year of experience. For now we have free health care, but spanish politians are trying really hard to fuck it with their budget reductions, and for taxes, well, I think Spain is one of the countries with more taxes, and living in Barcelona is not cheap.

@Frob, I was talking about the first post, not the graph which I didn't even see :( . Btw, some tech companies still required to come to work with a suit, like Everis, mine too, but it's because I'm working for a prestigious law firm and..well, you know...lawyers with a 'classical' mind (sorry, I don't know a more appropiate term for this in english).

Well, at the end I was just surprised about the salaries in other countries, even if I already knew that are much higuer than in Spain.