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  • M Michael Sync

    Shog9 wrote:

    my employer takes care of providing me the tools necessary for my job.

    ya.. but they won't allow me to take the installer to install in my personal machine, right? so, i will still need to use VS express to develop my pet projects...

    Thanks and Regards, Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net) "Please vote to let me (and others) know if this answer helped you or not. A 5 vote tells people that your question has been answered successfully and that I've pitched it at just the right level. Thanks."

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    Shog9 0
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    Michael Sync wrote:

    so, i will still need to use VS express to develop my pet projects...

    Yeah. Or a text editor and GCC. If you're into the .NET stuff, you can download the SDK and do command line builds there as well. VS Express is pretty decent though.

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    ...the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more...

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      Christian Graus wrote:

      some devs make within that range per hour

      then, $18000 per month? ( ($100 x 6) x 30 = 18000 ) Wow! it's too much.. Are you all from West got that much??

      Thanks and Regards, Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net) "Please vote to let me (and others) know if this answer helped you or not. A 5 vote tells people that your question has been answered successfully and that I've pitched it at just the right level. Thanks."

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      Christian Graus
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      No, the average starting wage I would say is $30-$40k. We work an 8 hour day, you work 6 ? ( I work 16, but.... )

      Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

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        Michael Sync wrote:

        What is ISV?

        Through MS Partner Program, its an Independent Software Vendor. https://partner.microsoft.com/US/program/programoverview/programbenefits

        Gary

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        Michael Sync
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        Thanks... But it is sad that I don't own a company..

        Thanks and Regards, Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net) "Please vote to let me (and others) know if this answer helped you or not. A 5 vote tells people that your question has been answered successfully and that I've pitched it at just the right level. Thanks."

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        • C Christian Graus

          No, the average starting wage I would say is $30-$40k. We work an 8 hour day, you work 6 ? ( I work 16, but.... )

          Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

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          Michael Sync
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          Christian Graus wrote:

          the average starting wage I would say is $30-$40k.

          Wow!! $40K per month.. That's amazing..

          Christian Graus wrote:

          We work an 8 hour day, you work 6 ?

          We work 8 hrs a day too. but we don't count breakfast hour ( 30 mins),lunch (1 hr ) and cafe time ( 30 mins)... I worked 8 hrs (sometimes, more ) in Office.. After office hours, I take time to participate in this forum, try to read about C# 3.0 and etc, do blogging.. I spend so much time in front of computers every day.. but .... (I should have born in West.)

          Thanks and Regards, Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net) "Please vote to let me (and others) know if this answer helped you or not. A 5 vote tells people that your question has been answered successfully and that I've pitched it at just the right level. Thanks."

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            Michael Sync wrote:

            so, i will still need to use VS express to develop my pet projects...

            Yeah. Or a text editor and GCC. If you're into the .NET stuff, you can download the SDK and do command line builds there as well. VS Express is pretty decent though.

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            Michael Sync
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            :) ya. When I was using .NET 1.1, I used to use SharpDevelop.. Now, I thank to MS for releasing VS Express. :)

            Thanks and Regards, Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net)

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            • M Michael Sync

              Thanks... But it is sad that I don't own a company..

              Thanks and Regards, Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net) "Please vote to let me (and others) know if this answer helped you or not. A 5 vote tells people that your question has been answered successfully and that I've pitched it at just the right level. Thanks."

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              ghle
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              Michael Sync wrote:

              I don't own a company

              You could own a Sole Proprietorship company - MichealSyncSoftware - tomorrow! Taxes are little more complex than personal taxes, plus you get more write-offs (assuming US citizen). Write off your personal computers, software, subscription (1/3 of $399 = $133. A rebate in effect, net cost $266), magazines, seminars, travel to seminars, etc., etc.

              Gary

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              • M Michael Sync

                Shog9 wrote:

                my employer takes care of providing me the tools necessary for my job.

                ya.. but they won't allow me to take the installer to install in my personal machine, right? so, i will still need to use VS express to develop my pet projects...

                Thanks and Regards, Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net) "Please vote to let me (and others) know if this answer helped you or not. A 5 vote tells people that your question has been answered successfully and that I've pitched it at just the right level. Thanks."

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                Brady Kelly
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                When you use the disk to install VS, just copy the whole thing to your dev machine.  Then, when nobody is looking, you can cut a disk to take home.  My employer has no problem with me installing on my personal machine, as I do a lot of work for them on it.

                My head asplode!

                Calling all South African developers! Your participation in this local dev community will be mutually beneficial, to you and us.

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                • M Michael Sync

                  Ref : http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/bb841434.aspx Who can buy the MSDN subscription??? I mean, among the developers.. The salary range for developer in my area are between USD 1600 and 2000. (I know there are some developers who used to get around $100~$500 per month in some countries.) So, how can we buy this MSDN subscription ($1199)??

                  Visual Studio Professional Edition with MSDN Professional ($1,199)

                  Thanks and Regards, Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net)

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                  NormDroid
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                  :doh: Get your company to buy it:rolleyes:

                  WPF - Imagineers Wanted Follow your nose using DoubleAnimationUsingPath

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                  • M Michael Sync

                    Christian Graus wrote:

                    the average starting wage I would say is $30-$40k.

                    Wow!! $40K per month.. That's amazing..

                    Christian Graus wrote:

                    We work an 8 hour day, you work 6 ?

                    We work 8 hrs a day too. but we don't count breakfast hour ( 30 mins),lunch (1 hr ) and cafe time ( 30 mins)... I worked 8 hrs (sometimes, more ) in Office.. After office hours, I take time to participate in this forum, try to read about C# 3.0 and etc, do blogging.. I spend so much time in front of computers every day.. but .... (I should have born in West.)

                    Thanks and Regards, Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net) "Please vote to let me (and others) know if this answer helped you or not. A 5 vote tells people that your question has been answered successfully and that I've pitched it at just the right level. Thanks."

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                    Anton Afanasyev
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                    Michael Sync wrote:

                    Wow!! $40K per month.. That's amazing..

                    Thats probably per year....that much per month is crazy, and definitely nowhere near the average.


                    :badger:

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                    • B Brady Kelly

                      When you use the disk to install VS, just copy the whole thing to your dev machine.  Then, when nobody is looking, you can cut a disk to take home.  My employer has no problem with me installing on my personal machine, as I do a lot of work for them on it.

                      My head asplode!

                      Calling all South African developers! Your participation in this local dev community will be mutually beneficial, to you and us.

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                      Anton Afanasyev
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                      Brady Kelly wrote:

                      When you use the disk to install VS, just copy the whole thing to your dev machine. Then, when nobody is looking, you can cut a disk to take home.

                      tsk tsk tsk...


                      :badger:

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                      • A Anton Afanasyev

                        Michael Sync wrote:

                        Wow!! $40K per month.. That's amazing..

                        Thats probably per year....that much per month is crazy, and definitely nowhere near the average.


                        :badger:

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                        Michael Sync
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                        Christian said that people from West got $100-$500 per hours. then, $18000 per month? ( ($100 x 6) x 30 = 18000 ).. he said that they work an 8-hrs a day so ($100 x 8) x 30 = 24000

                        Thanks and Regards, Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net) "Please vote to let me (and others) know if this answer helped you or not. A 5 vote tells people that your question has been answered successfully and that I've pitched it at just the right level. Thanks."

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                        • M Michael Sync

                          Christian said that people from West got $100-$500 per hours. then, $18000 per month? ( ($100 x 6) x 30 = 18000 ).. he said that they work an 8-hrs a day so ($100 x 8) x 30 = 24000

                          Thanks and Regards, Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net) "Please vote to let me (and others) know if this answer helped you or not. A 5 vote tells people that your question has been answered successfully and that I've pitched it at just the right level. Thanks."

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                          blackjack2150
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                          Michael Sync wrote:

                          he said that they work an 8-hrs a day so ($100 x 8) x 30 = 24000

                          Don't tell me you work Saturdays and Sundays there...

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                            "(I know there are some developers who used to get around $100~$500 per month in some countries.)" implied that this was as much as dev makes in *any* country. In the West, some devs make within that range per hour. Of course, that's not average, but it's possible. I don't recall Singapore being especially cheap, I'm surprised you get paid so little.

                            Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

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                            Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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                            Jordanian Devs make a starting salary of about 350JD which is about 500US$. In the Gulf Countries (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, etc.) They make something comparative to 2000US$ - 3000US$ (depending on many factors) and they don't pay income tax. Locally, the region is experiencing an incredible boom across many sectors and inflation is becoming a serious problem because the salaries are not moving with the inflation at all. This is why there is a serious brain drain issue with the countries like Jordan, Egypt, and Lebanon (generally, better educated more technology aware) to the Gulf countries. And this is why I've decided enough is enough, as soon as I finish my Masters Degree I'm going back home to Canada. It sucks working hard and not making a living comparable to my friends and family back west. :sigh: Court case with the worm vendors pending. :^)

                            "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook "There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance." Ali ibn Abi Talib "Animadvertistine, ubicumque stes, fumum recta in faciem ferri?"

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                            • M Michael Sync

                              Christian Graus wrote:

                              the average starting wage I would say is $30-$40k.

                              Wow!! $40K per month.. That's amazing..

                              Christian Graus wrote:

                              We work an 8 hour day, you work 6 ?

                              We work 8 hrs a day too. but we don't count breakfast hour ( 30 mins),lunch (1 hr ) and cafe time ( 30 mins)... I worked 8 hrs (sometimes, more ) in Office.. After office hours, I take time to participate in this forum, try to read about C# 3.0 and etc, do blogging.. I spend so much time in front of computers every day.. but .... (I should have born in West.)

                              Thanks and Regards, Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net) "Please vote to let me (and others) know if this answer helped you or not. A 5 vote tells people that your question has been answered successfully and that I've pitched it at just the right level. Thanks."

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                              Christian Graus
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                              OK, I see the issue. We generally measure salaries by year. $40k per year is an average starting salary

                              Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

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                              • M Michael Sync

                                Christian said that people from West got $100-$500 per hours. then, $18000 per month? ( ($100 x 6) x 30 = 18000 ).. he said that they work an 8-hrs a day so ($100 x 8) x 30 = 24000

                                Thanks and Regards, Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net) "Please vote to let me (and others) know if this answer helped you or not. A 5 vote tells people that your question has been answered successfully and that I've pitched it at just the right level. Thanks."

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                                Christian Graus
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                                Michael Sync wrote:

                                Christian said that people from West got $100-$500 per hours.

                                I said some can get inside that range. I can get > $100 an hour. There is no way I can get $500, not often and never on a long term job.

                                Michael Sync wrote:

                                he said that they work an 8-hrs a day so ($100 x 8) x 30 = 24000

                                We get weekends off, mostly

                                Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

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                                • C Christian Graus

                                  OK, I see the issue. We generally measure salaries by year. $40k per year is an average starting salary

                                  Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

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                                  Michael Sync
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                                  Christian Graus wrote:

                                  We get weekends off, mostly

                                  ($100 x 8) x 20 = 16000? 40K / 12 = 3333.3 ?? Anyway, it's much higher..

                                  Christian Graus wrote:

                                  OK, I see the issue.

                                  Yeah. We used to measure the salaries by month. :) That's why I was thinking why you are surprised the S'pore developer's salaries. but it still less than $1000 compared to ppl from west..

                                  Thanks and Regards, Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net) "Please vote to let me (and others) know if this answer helped you or not. A 5 vote tells people that your question has been answered successfully and that I've pitched it at just the right level. Thanks."

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                                    Christian Graus wrote:

                                    We get weekends off, mostly

                                    ($100 x 8) x 20 = 16000? 40K / 12 = 3333.3 ?? Anyway, it's much higher..

                                    Christian Graus wrote:

                                    OK, I see the issue.

                                    Yeah. We used to measure the salaries by month. :) That's why I was thinking why you are surprised the S'pore developer's salaries. but it still less than $1000 compared to ppl from west..

                                    Thanks and Regards, Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net) "Please vote to let me (and others) know if this answer helped you or not. A 5 vote tells people that your question has been answered successfully and that I've pitched it at just the right level. Thanks."

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                                    darkelv
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                                    I have been measuring my salary in year now (+ AWS and variable bonuses). A company might be paying higher monthly salary but in the end I might be getting less per year (contract without variable bonuses). We are paying less tax compared to the west too.

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                                      I have been measuring my salary in year now (+ AWS and variable bonuses). A company might be paying higher monthly salary but in the end I might be getting less per year (contract without variable bonuses). We are paying less tax compared to the west too.

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                                      Michael Sync
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                                      darkelv wrote:

                                      We are paying less tax compared to the west too.

                                      really? How much they pay for tax?? For me, I have to pay so much tax even I'm not in West.. I have to pay the tax ( S$140 per month ) to the country that I'm staying and I have to pay the tax ( S$80 per month) to my native country.. I have to pay the double taxes to two countries.. :((

                                      Thanks and Regards, Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net) "Please vote to let me (and others) know if this answer helped you or not. A 5 vote tells people that your question has been answered successfully and that I've pitched it at just the right level. Thanks."

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                                        darkelv wrote:

                                        We are paying less tax compared to the west too.

                                        really? How much they pay for tax?? For me, I have to pay so much tax even I'm not in West.. I have to pay the tax ( S$140 per month ) to the country that I'm staying and I have to pay the tax ( S$80 per month) to my native country.. I have to pay the double taxes to two countries.. :((

                                        Thanks and Regards, Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net) "Please vote to let me (and others) know if this answer helped you or not. A 5 vote tells people that your question has been answered successfully and that I've pitched it at just the right level. Thanks."

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                                        darkelv
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                                        I am not sure about EP holder. But for Singaporean and PR, roughly 5% for first 40k, and 8% after that, and so on. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax\_bracket If you are from countries that are not in non-double-taxation list, well, that will sucks. ;p

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                                        • M Michael Sync

                                          Christian said that people from West got $100-$500 per hours. then, $18000 per month? ( ($100 x 6) x 30 = 18000 ).. he said that they work an 8-hrs a day so ($100 x 8) x 30 = 24000

                                          Thanks and Regards, Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net) "Please vote to let me (and others) know if this answer helped you or not. A 5 vote tells people that your question has been answered successfully and that I've pitched it at just the right level. Thanks."

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                                          Colin Angus Mackay
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                                          Michael Sync wrote:

                                          x 30

                                          There are only 20 working days per month.


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