Employers will do almost anything to find workers except pay them more
And if you think it&#x27;s bad, it&#x27;s even worse in Europe.<p>Taking the French example: I&#x27;m an freelancer, but I used to have a contract with an American company.<p>They gave me 3x the salary most of my French colleagues would get, while keeping the exact same social advantages (they paid me through a French branch).<p>However, to them, the salary was twice lower than what they would have paid for the same guy in the Valley.<p>Now as a freelancer, I move a lot from companies to companies, and I hear the same complaint over and over: we can&#x27;t find good devs.<p>But when I look at the job offers they publish, it&#x27;s full of buzzwords and cool attitude, yet the pay is not remotely matching the skills they are hiring for.<p>You want somebody speaking 2 tongues, coding expertly in 3 languages (e.g: server lang + js + css), knowing a bit of sysadmin, ergonomics, architectural design, data base, and capable of understanding your undocumented stack du jour + infra.<p>No, you can&#x27;t pay that $2500 a month.