alt Hacker NewsIt's an extra 18k a year for developer tools when they're paying how much a year per developer? Having software developers at all isn't cheap.
Also, I don't believe you need to spend $1500 a month on a coding agent if you optimize usage at all.
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ecshafer • yesterday at 6:38 PM
$18k a year is a non starter in most companies. Ive seen companies balk at Intellij.
mrweasel • yesterday at 7:05 PM
That depends on where you are. $18K is the equivalent of paying around 15% more for your developer.
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In Latvia, the net salary for a Java dev is around 1729 - 4314 EUR, based on https://www.algas.lv/algu-informacija/informacijas-tehnologi... (crowd sourced data)
For the employer those employees cost between 2945 - 7736 EUR per month based on https://kalkulatori.lv/lv/algas-kalkulators (income and social taxes).
So on the lower end that's (1500 USD ~ 1300 EUR) close to half the total expenses of such a developer, on the high end here around 15-20%. That's quite significant, depends on whether their productivity also improves (if that's what the orgs care about).
And we’re not even the country with the worst pay out there, but pay the same for tokens, cause regional pricing isn’t a thing!