I've been asking recruiters I'd only consider roles for £95k+. I have 3 YoE. Am I being greedy? (In London).

95k on 3Years 😎

I don't know the London market, but that seems on the high side, not every company is a US Silicon Valley startup where they'll throw money out the window at anyone.

Looking at a few job sites for UK, "mid" level devs are anywhere between £35k and £90k from what I can tell. So are you really a over achieving mid who's stepping into senior after only 3 years?

@C0D4 Tbh I've found the stats very skewed, I've found senior engineer jobs paying less than my current mid level one in central London (not even hybrid atleast), personally feel if companies actually have the capacity to pay devs far more, they just don't >.> But perhaps I'm just screwing myself with my own stubbornness and privilege thinking I deserve much more :p seeing online posts specially on Reddit for UK/EU salaries has had an influence though

@pandasama every market is different - somewhat.

Reddit though, isn't everyone making 500k a year 😅

@C0D4 Pretty much, I feel there is truth in some of them though. I've met people who say similar things, specially about Fintech companies.

@pandasama fintech / startups always pay more. This comes with the high risk of failure vs actually making it or being bought out and collapsed into the parent company.

Not everyone works in fintech. I work in the Retail space so probably paid less then the average fintech mug but I have fairly good autonomousity when it comes to my work and decisions vs just being handed a task and told to do it 🤷‍♂️

Everyone's pie is different though.

@C0D4 I can understand that, I just feel given current inflation too at this level we should be paid more than before atleast by a decent amount

@UnicornPoo Yeah so that's another reason I want more money actually. Going to a new company means learning everything from scratch once again and performing less initially simply because you don't know as much about all the systems as before, so switching jobs is quite costly to the applicant too in that sense, which is why personally feel value should be more for job switch

I'm in London too, 90k for 3 years is a bit high, you might get that at FAANG, contracting, hedge funds or top banks... But those jobs aren't easy to get and have their fair share of downsides

Just a noob question; 95k after the taxes or before taxes?

@hack no noob question here, before taxes

@atheist maybe Reddit posts have given me a bad image, inflation at the rate it's going does sort of justify atleast higher rates for mid level than before, I'm actually seeing grad roles at my current salary at non hedge funds non banking jobs

Depends on the country. I had dudes fresh out of a 3 months bootcamp asking for a mid-high engineer salary. While a lot of beginners suffer from impostor syndrome, you have a few that think they are a gift for the programming world, when they are really no different from everyone else. If a company is willing to pay a ton, that's great, go for it.

@ars1 for sure, not saying that interviewing will show your true worth but you get to reality once you realize how competitive getting a job really is

Not sure whether it is even possible to be greedy in London...