Employers will do almost anything to find workers except pay them more
And if you think it's bad, it's even worse in Europe.Taking the French example: I'm an freelancer, but I used to have a contract with an American company.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).However, to them, the salary was twice lower than what they would have paid for the same guy in the Valley.Now as a freelancer, I move a lot from companies to companies, and I hear the same complaint over and over: we can't find good devs.But when I look at the job offers they publish, it's full of buzzwords and cool attitude, yet the pay is not remotely matching the skills they are hiring for.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.No, you can't pay that $2500 a month.