Any advise on how to get a wage on the ranges mentioned on the article (or in the comments) while living OUTSIDE the USA?
I live in Central America, but work for a Seattle based startup as a remote contractor and make $32K.
Whenever I read about "common" salaries for programmers in the US an internal conflict unleashes on me.
On one side what I make is on the middle-high range when compared to the local market, but it seems it is low when compared to US salaries.
I often wonder if I'm fooling myself and the guys with those salaries in the US are actually more skilled than me and there is no point on comparing.
For the record I have a bachelor degree on computer science (from a local university), was Cisco CCNA certified (expired already) and consider myself to be a fairly competent full stack programmer, in the sense that I can build a web application from zero and handle everything from setting up the server and designing the DB to developing the user interface (html, css) and programming the back-end (in PHP)
I have recently reached the same conclusion that the person on the article, and I'm planning to launch a SaaS side project of my own and let the market decide the real value of my work...
I live in Central America, but work for a Seattle based startup as a remote contractor and make $32K.
Whenever I read about "common" salaries for programmers in the US an internal conflict unleashes on me.
On one side what I make is on the middle-high range when compared to the local market, but it seems it is low when compared to US salaries.
I often wonder if I'm fooling myself and the guys with those salaries in the US are actually more skilled than me and there is no point on comparing.
For the record I have a bachelor degree on computer science (from a local university), was Cisco CCNA certified (expired already) and consider myself to be a fairly competent full stack programmer, in the sense that I can build a web application from zero and handle everything from setting up the server and designing the DB to developing the user interface (html, css) and programming the back-end (in PHP)
I have recently reached the same conclusion that the person on the article, and I'm planning to launch a SaaS side project of my own and let the market decide the real value of my work...