From what I gathered in the Asia region you really only have Singapore or a Chinese tier 1 and maybe some tier 2 cities as a option(financially). Where you can actually earn enough to not waste years of income when you return again to the west.
If they want to attract more tech workers they really need to up their salaries.
People might go for maybe cultural reason or whatever but that pool is not enough to close the gap is guess.
> If they want to attract more tech workers they really need to up their salaries.
Having a good salary is important but the work-life balance is just as important, if not more. I lived in Japan for a years (not as a dev, am now); I can make do with a lower salary due to healthcare being mostly sorted (you pay 30%, government pays 70%) and a good standard of living (better than London IMO), but I don't want to work absurd hours and deal with a toxic working culture, alongside a low salary.
I've met many talented women in Japan via Meetups and Women Who Code Tokyo and there's definitely no shortage of great developers. People just want a fair work-balance and an honest salary, which they are more likely to find at a gaishikei (foreign-run company)
I hear that the seniority is so strong there. Added with commute, bad working hours and mandatory parties after works, I don't think good developers will want to work there.
Yeah I agree on the work-life balance that is why I find it interesting that China banned the unpaid 996 culture.
It was one of the reason I placed China as a lower option then Singapore for me personally.
In Singapore you have more western companies so maybe they also use more western work culture.
I was thinking of maybe work a couple of years in a Asian country
when the world starts opening up again hopefully somewhere in 2023~2024.
So that I why I did some minimal research on salary.
If they want to attract more tech workers they really need to up their salaries. People might go for maybe cultural reason or whatever but that pool is not enough to close the gap is guess.