The salaries in the city table seem like a fantasy to me, with $180k at the low end of the scale.
Albeit I'm a western expat in a supposedly impoverished developing nation (no shortage of very expensive cars here though!); local salaries for senior devs top out at 24k/pa, juniors as low as $5k/pa, and if I look on the freelancer sites, there are many job 'offers' as low as $5-10/hour; I don't think I've seen any ruby/rails type roles above about $50/hr recently, and any near that level get 10s or even 100s of applicants.
But if those big US salaries are being eaten by rent, there's the real problem.
I'd happily take one of those 200k+ roles, remote, for half the price.
Albeit I'm a western expat in a supposedly impoverished developing nation (no shortage of very expensive cars here though!); local salaries for senior devs top out at 24k/pa, juniors as low as $5k/pa, and if I look on the freelancer sites, there are many job 'offers' as low as $5-10/hour; I don't think I've seen any ruby/rails type roles above about $50/hr recently, and any near that level get 10s or even 100s of applicants.
But if those big US salaries are being eaten by rent, there's the real problem.
I'd happily take one of those 200k+ roles, remote, for half the price.