Interesting that San Francisco ranks at #34 together with São Paulo. Uh?
So, say if a senior Flash dev earns an average of US$ 80k, so should a
senior Flash dev in São Paulo, right? That'd be R$ 168k, or about R$ 13k
a month (13 salaries per year). I'm living in São Paulo, but i'm not
working for local companies, so i might be wrong, but from what i hear
senior Flash devs here rarely make more than R$ 5k a month, i even heard
of Flex devs here that make less than R$ 3k. R$ 5k a month would roughly
translate to US$ 31k a year.
Never trust statistics that you didn't fake yourself. ;)
Agreed in that case. Sounds pretty off. Or maybe I'm just too cheap. :)
Also, this looks pretty strange:
http://www.citymayors.com/economics/expensive_cities2.html
There's no way in hell Rio de Janeiro as a higher living cost than São
Paulo.
Also, SF is not listed there. There are two lists apparently?
Anyways, there must be a lot that's not taken into consideration on
those surveys, while some things might have a much bigger influence. For
instance, in Brazil, for transportation (vehicles + fuel) and computer
hardware, you'll be spending a lot more than you would in, say, USA or
Europe; however, you'll be spending a lot less with housing, food, and
clothes.
So it's not something very easy to compare, specially if you use
computers on your work (when much of your costs are the same all over
the world, if not more expensive even when you're living on a 'cheaper'
country).
Zeh
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