All good points. I should probably blame the smallness of my company aswell. On 6 May 2013 09:11, "Chris Angelico" <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Fábio Santos <fabiosantos...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I may rise the average pay of a Python programmer in Portugal. I have > asked > > for a raise back in December, and was told that it wouldn't happen before > > this year. I have done well. I think I deserve better pay than a > supermarket > > employee now. I am sure that my efforts were appreciated and I will be > > rewarded. I am being sarcastic. > > > > The above paragraph wouldn't be true if I programmed in perl, c++ or > lisp. > > I dunno, it depends more on where you work than what you work with. > I'm the top employee at my workplace and use C++, Pike, PHP, > Javascript, and bash, plus ancillaries like SQL... and my salary is > definitely on the low end. Why? Because I work for a startup. No doubt > Google or IBM would pay their top people way more than I'm getting, > but that's not something a little internet startup can afford. So I > bide my time :) Some day we'll be massively profitable... some day. > And if not, hey, I'm making enough to survive. > > Of course, there's the whole thing of "how easy would it be to replace > you" too. If the only language you know is PHP, chances are you can be > replaced by any idiot straight out of secondary skool (sorry, that's > school_real_secondary now isn't it), but someone who speaks FORTRAN > and knows the bank's internal systems well enough to maintain them can > ask for whatever salary he likes and still be cheaper than finding a > replacement. But that expert FORTRAN programmer, if he quit his job > and went searching, would quite probably find himself at the lower end > again if he joined a small company. > > ChrisA > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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