Are you in the US? You should be making way more than that if so
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I'm not, I'm in the UK -- I just gave the figure in $ cos I assumed it'd make more sense to people! It's a pretty decent wage for UK devs, for what I do. Would it make sense to work for a US company?
What exactly do you do on a day-to-day basis?
If you were in the US I would guess that during normal times you could find a job that pays $90-100k + benefits.
It's not an exact comparison, I'm a front end person with a lot of Drupal experience, probably less php and js experience than you, and my agency pays really well, but I was hired at $108k and earn $118k now, + about 15k in benefits, to give you a rough idea.
You might be able to find a remote job in the US but it will be tough, the time difference is hard, plus the added expense of employing someone in another country, plus the massive uncertainty around the US economy right now will be challenging. Worth a shot, but I think it's definitely worth trying to find something better in the UK.
I can speak from experience: working on the agency side the pay is insanely low. Switch to the client side and while the work isn’t as interesting or fun, you’ll get a huge pay increase.
When you say client side, what do you mean? I've worked in-house and for agencies, and the in-house pay was fine but not markedly more or less than agencies for similar roles (although it was less stressful).
I would interpret that as in-house.
To get a pay bump you’re probably going to want to be looking at Frontend Engineer roles in a tech/SAAS company. Skim through some job descriptions for those to see what is in demand. (React is probably involved.)
Exactly - in-house (the companies your agency used to do projects for). I think I got an immediate 40k bump going from advertising (an interactive agency) to healthcare.
I'll take another look at in-house roles. Thank you!