After having relocated a fair number of candidates from the US to Australia I can say that you should be looking for a 30% lift in salary from what you are would be paid in San Francisco to have the same standard of living in Sydney. If you are coming from somewhere like Austin to Sydney you are should be looking to double your current salary. This big jump in salary does not happen as most people think 1:1 is a fair enough ratio to maintain so you get candidates who arrive and see $4.00 bottles of water and freak out when they realised they have undersold themselves.
On the other side of the table when I have US clients establishing offices in Sydney they simply cannot get their head around why a Senior Engineer is getting director and senior director salary offers. -- Cheers, Adam http://adamseabrook.com On 24/08/2012, at 10:07 AM, Julio Cesar Ody <julio...@gmail.com> wrote: > TL;DR: between US and Australia, it's what you make of it. > > Pitching in, as someone who went through two 457s, permanent > residency, and eventually citizenship. Oh and I'm from Brazil, which > is one category before last in terms of "qualifiable background". > Also, I have no degree. > > The three last visas I applied for, I did it all online, on my own, > with perhaps two phone calls made to the department of immigration for > clarifications. Maybe, I got lucky, but I find it hard to believe I'd > get lucky three times in a row with *zero* friction as far as the > processes went. They were helpful and polite all the way. > > I'm yet to be offered more money by a US company, despite numerous job > offers from there (I bet a lot of people from here get those regularly > too). Not to say the offers from there were all bad, but even > factoring cost of living, plus the certainty that you won't be able to > live there forever even if you wanted to, I'd still come out ahead > with any of the better-than-average offer from locals. > > And as a freelancer, all my great clients were local. Had about three > good clients from overseas, though all the great ones to work with > were from around here, including people being being organised with > payment dates and such. > > So go Australia! > > P.S.: there are great people to work with everywhere. > > > > > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Chris Aitchison <cmaitchi...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> "Oh, and I suspect there's a few grumbles about getting permission to work >> in Australia." >> >> Here is the best of those grumbles! From a Lonely Planet Ruby dev (yes they >> still have a Ruby dev team in Footscray) trying to get permanent residency >> for himself, his Japanese wife, and half-Japanese baby born in Melbourne. >> >> http://gyrovague.com/2012/08/10/notarizing-your-fingerprints-for-fun-and-profit >> >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Andrew Grimm <andrew.j.gr...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> I've been invited to give a 5-10 minute talk about what it's like >>> being a Ruby dev in Oz. It'll be at a pre-RubyKaigi meetup in Tokyo, >>> which will have a fair number of Japanese and non-Japanese people. >>> >>> As far as I can tell, most of the capital cities have Ruby meetups, >>> and possibly meetups on JavaScript, functional programming or iOS >>> programming. And Sydney also has hack nights. I'll also talk about >>> Railscamps, and RubyConf Australia. >>> >>> I'm also asked about work in Australia. Is Ruby-based work mainly >>> based in small startups and/or freelancing, with more mainstream >>> languages required for larger corporations? What is the work >>> environment like? What kind of hours are expected? What is the pay >>> like compared to the cost of living in Australia? >>> >>> I've heard a few grumbles about what it's like working in a large >>> corporate, but is that more about what tools and processes are used, >>> rather than how they treat you? >>> >>> Oh, and I suspect there's a few grumbles about getting permission to >>> work in Australia. But is that more of a PITA rather than a >>> show-stopper? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Andrew >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. >>> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. >> To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. >> To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. 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