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		digianarchist on Jan 13, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe? I don't think any of these reasons explain why European SWE salaries are so low and I don't think they need to be compromised in order to raise wages.

tolbish on Jan 13, 2021 [–]

Care to elaborate?

digianarchist on Jan 13, 2021 | [–]

I don’t buy the idea that employing people in Europe is so expensive because of these benefit programs that wages are lowered to compensate.

Some of those costs aren’t even borne by the employer.

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