What do you work as and how much do you make?

Not if you work for a 3rd party cleaning company which most gov and schools are now doing so they don't have to pay those benefits.

We try to stick with .NET backend, Angular frontend for dev work, but we're flexible. We typically work for non-tech companies and we depend MASSIVELY on referrals. Our audience is generally "non-tech companies that would benefit from technology and understand that, but don't know how to go forward."

Beyond dev work, we do management consulting, recruiting and team-building, devops and CI/CD/release management (mostly for us, customers usually have no need for it but like getting their builds quickly). Full service software consultants, greenfield to deployment, maintenance, and hiring people to maintain.

That's what I've heard. I'm not sure about Poland specifically because I haven't researched the market, but I know in general you end up getting a lot less in Europe, but you also end up being a lot more comfortable in your day-to-day.

I work at a potato chip factory, make $20/hr

Safety Engineer, $105k + bonus, usually $3-6k

And all those free chips, lucky.

I posted the $138k with bonuses. They even cover 100% of my insurance. The Covid overreaction was a major boon for guys like me. I live in the Midwest where the average income if $50k/yr and I work for a West Coast finance company where wages are much higher. So they're paying me less than a local and it's way more than I could hope to get at a local company. My salary is also high because being a software engineer is less about being able to code (anyone can do it with proper training and supervision) and more about my specialized business knowledge. That's where you can really goose your wages.

That's got to be one of the most vague job titles I've heard, what do you do?

Aww happy families

Data analyst at Amazon. Fucking 30k€ lol

Software consultant here, your second to last sentence is spot on. I don't provide software. I barely talk about the details. I provide business value. What I do personally might be software, writing code, etc, but what businesses need and want is value. And boy do they pay for it.