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[40_pending]

My last salary was about 70,000 NZD, which is less than $49,000 USD. I now make $87,000 USD (about 124,000 NZD), and I've got a written agreement for a raise to $95,000 in about another six months (135,000 NZD). The most I ever made in NZ was one year where I worked two different contractor jobs at about 60 hours per week and I brought in maybe 80k NZD ($56,000 USD). I now make $31,000 USD more than that at just 40 hours of work per week.

[lacampbell → 40_pending]

Are you a junior dev? Those contracting rates are awful.

I'd class 70k as great for a junior, mediocre for intermediate and a joke for a senior. Wonder if they low-balled you for being a foreigner.

FWIW as a NZer you hit the nail on the head about the anti-americanism, and simultaneous obsession with american politics.

[driverdan → lacampbell]

It depends on where you live in the US. That salary would be low in the Bay but high in other places.

[lacampbell → driverdan]

70 NZD = ~49 USD that's low in the bay but high in other places?!