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Discussion on: I work 25+y with Software Development and being a Maker, Ask Me Anything!

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Stefan Wuthrich

Hi Saurav. It's Ask me ANYTHING, so you did :-)
But I can't answer this here for different reasons.
One of them is, that this is sooooo relative.
I can tell you some examples, I hope this helps.
About 20 years ago I moved from employee to freelancer kind of work, was fix contracted from one person and had about 30% more Net then now. Then I was a mix of Dev, Engineer, and Consultant. Today I lead 3 Scrum Teams, responsible for road map planning for whole company etc.
Why I have now less? It's different... Even that I have much more responsibility, work much too much etc, I have less mainly because I work as an Expat in a country, where living costs are much lower.
But... If I would do the same, in the same position, in the same country etc, I know from people who get double.
So, one of the answers could be "It REALLY depends"... Not only on role and experiences but where you are, for whom you work etc.
And even these parameters are never fixed. Eg salaries of specialists, really good software engineers are growing worldwide, where I see a tendency that dev salaries for more "simple" tech jobs are going down in high-cost countries and only a bit up in low cost.