How much money do you earn? And how do you spend it?

zulucat

zulucat

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I clear R48k in my account and I thought I was making a killing, people have it really nice out there, wow! some numbers I can only dream of... I am 28, still a chance to get ahead... I save about R23k per month - after all things done.
 
CamiKaze

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zulucat said:
I clear R48k in my account and I thought I was making a killing, people have it really nice out there, wow! some numbers I can only dream of... I am 28, still a chance to get ahead... I save about R23k per month - after all things done.
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Save 23k?

Do you live with your parents?
 
Hamster

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krycor said:
saw a cv today of a guy earning 95k.. 4th job in 4yrs (total exp).. :X3: ordinary web app & mobile full stack i guess.. but with every job the stack changed so i lol'd
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Did he have every single front end technology listed on his CV?
 
Pho3nix

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CamiKaze said:
I know that there are anomalies, trust me.... I've worked on SAP before so it is easy for me to see who earns what.
I am saying that the average is around the 1m mark.
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Fair enough, top end seems to cap out at R1.5m from what I’ve seen. There are some higher but anomalies those
 
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Hamster said:
Did he have every single front end technology listed on his CV?
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Front: Angular, Android, Ionic
Middle/Back: Springboot
Lang: java, c/c++, c#, python, typescript

Anyway.. my point was this.. 4yrs with 12 month job hop. I've done job hop 1.5-2yrs initially but part of it was due to contract or situational. A typical junior takes 3-6months before they start delivering on own.. fast forward to a more mature setting with tech stack changing.. if you hoping ever 12 months.. that means u need to be delivering value by end of month 1 or 2 (I usually aim for 1 month). Now when does he learn the new stack and show value ? And then if he is leaving at month 12 that means he might not have seen consequences of bad dev because he is gone when the stuff hit the fan ;)

i dunno maybe i'm just old or like the long haul where you prove yourself over time instead of impressing in interview but hopeless. Might be why most of jobs are via ref or network and rarely via interview (unless old school dev types).

PS. Post getting experience with good software eng.. slapping on newer frameworks and pushing salary upward happens fast from what i've seen,
 
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I'm answering this one anonymously.
I have been at the company for 5 years now, and I basically run the companies I.T. by myself, which includes over 200 field staff and 20 office staff. I just got told a friend of mine who does miles less than me (similar job) gets paid almost the same as me. Something's very wrong here. Im also 35 now, so my salary situation is seriously depressing me.

14k before deductions.
Rent: R6k
Food: R1.5k
Internet: R1k
Debt: R1.5k
Tech Subs: R400
Petrol: R600 +/-
Smokes R800
Leaves me with about R700 left over.
 
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