Comments by "Trazyn" (@Trazynn) on "Being IT/Web Engineer in Japan [ENG CC]" video.

  1. The US is the exception here, not Japan. It's not Japan that pays half as much for IT as the rest of the world. It's the US that pays twice as much for IT than the rest of the world. So...clearly one of these countries is paying the wrong price right? Not quite. The truth is that we're looking at averages whereas the actual incomes have a highly skewed distributions. This means there's a few all-star engineers making millions a year and then there's lots of mediocre engineers making normal wages. There's a huge diversity in how much value an engineer can add to a company in Silicon Valley, but there's not much diversity in how much value an engineer can add elsewhere. Maybe the US is ahead of the curve, maybe their wages are inflated, but this industry doesn't seem to be slowing down any time soon.
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  2. That makes the US the exception.
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  3. Completely true. Japan is an economy with low entropy, very little waste and friction and therefore the cost of living isn't as high.
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  4. European salaries are more similar to Japan than they are to the US.
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  5. Exactly. Take twouser experience designers of equal skill and experience, one in Silicon Valley and one anywhere else in the world. The UX designer in silicon valley could be responsible for a hundred times more users interacting with software than the UX designer anywhere else.
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