6 figures? I only take jobs with free fruit basket. That's the minimum.
PS, my references: I have never used cursor, I am quite bad at vibe coding and don't enjoy it at all. I rarely even use AI for help. But I am quite decent at FPGA design and embedded developemnt. If you have a job for me in germany or remote in europe, then I will pay you with very bad humor every week. Possibility of using linux+neovim is a requirement though. (Yes, I really need a job)
It’s pretty normal for programmers to make over $100k in plenty of companies in much of the US. Big tech companies may pay a reasonable amount more when you consider equity, especially in high cost of living areas.
Programmer salaries have diverged a lot between the United States and Europe in the last 30 years. (This comes up basically every time remuneration is discussed on this forum). Hardware engineer pay has not seen such rises in the United States or Europe though I don’t know how much FPGA work ends up in the hardware bucket rather than the software one.
Some financial firms will pay well by American standards in Europe and also make use of FPGAs, though I don’t know how many you’d find in Germany.
Programmers are also well paid in Switzerland.
Maybe one thing to add: ‘bad humor’ is a bit hard to parse in English – it sounds like a cross between ‘bad humored’ which roughly means ‘unpleasant to be around’ and ‘bad sense of humor’, which is what I think you intend.
Not sure either of those capture the nuance of bad humour… ‘bad sense of humour’ can imply not finding anything funny or taking offence to jokes. ‘Bad humour’ in this context implies bad at being humorous, e.g telling dad jokes
Yeah sure, I know that a lot of people make 6 figures. The comparison to switzerland is not that great though, giving the cost of living. There is not much difference of me getting a 100k CHF in switzerland or 60k€ in germany
PS, my references: I have never used cursor, I am quite bad at vibe coding and don't enjoy it at all. I rarely even use AI for help. But I am quite decent at FPGA design and embedded developemnt. If you have a job for me in germany or remote in europe, then I will pay you with very bad humor every week. Possibility of using linux+neovim is a requirement though. (Yes, I really need a job)