Treads user Kateryna with the nickname nemirovka_3 asked the community about the level of pay for IT juniors. A heated discussion ensued.
Treads user Kateryna with the nickname nemirovka_3 asked the community about the level of pay for IT juniors. A heated discussion ensued.
She published screenshots of several vacancies with remuneration from $300 to $900. «The IT topic in the comments caused discussions. So I want to ask, is this salary normal for a Junior? In my opinion, it is very little, especially since everyone wants someone with experience. If you say that you are only after the courses, they will not take you. But damn, $500 is like 21,000 UAH. Well, it is very little,» wrote Kateryna.
IT professionals are actively discussing her post .
“ How much would you like? $500 is a normal salary. For a guy with no experience. More frontend,» wrote user sergii_ivanchenko_warloc .
« It’s completely normal. I started with $250 at one time,» agrees the user with the nickname kondolovskyi with the previous commenter.
« From my own experience, as already written above, this is how they screen out candidates after courses, because they apply for 0.5 years+ of experience. And as a rule, it’s a waste of time to interview such people. We get 500-700 reviews for the position of Junior. That’s why we also put 1 year of experience. It helps a lot to have a link to Github at the beginning of the resume, and the projects that are on it. As for the salary, it all depends on what a person actually knows. $500 for a beginner is normal,» noted user olya.mandziuk .
According to user gultai4ukr, for a junior with up to a year of experience, of course, such a level of remuneration is normal. «The argument 'well, it’s very little' sounds somehow infantile. And in general, if such vacancies exist, it means there is demand for them, and your personal opinion should remain the same,» he noted.
«For the start of the norms, it’s not 2019, unfortunately. It’s possible to find something more, but right now it will be difficult,» says user stepan_poperechnyi .
«I started with $500, and that’s fine. It’s better to have that job than not to have it at all. Because waiting a million years until you get your dream offer for thousands is definitely less effective than gaining experience and having it many times better in a year. For some reason, everyone really latched onto these phrases from IT courses: „you will earn from $1,000 in 3 months,“ although this was never a reality,» noted Tanyavasylynchuk.
«Be glad that they are not asking Junior to pay to be hired,» adds yuriiandashko .
Junior actually knows little, someone more skilled will constantly spend time on him, whose hour of work costs many times more than Jun’s, argues nadia.labyk for the low salary of a beginner.
yevhen_yeshchev explains: if you rely on titles, a trainee is a person without experience (after courses). Junior has at least some experience. «But at the same time, they often look for a smart trainee for the position of Junior. That is why in almost all Junior vacancies you will see 1+ year of experience. This is done banally to reduce the number of „waiters“, otherwise recruiters would be bent over reviewing CVs. As for the salary: if there is no experience, then it is normal. If at least half a year, you can ask for 700+, there is already someone who will sell themselves,» he notes. However, in his opinion, a React Developer for $300-$400 is complete shit. «I don’t know who there is and what they smoked to point out such a fork. You have to be really desperate to apply for such a job,» he added, commenting on one of the screens.
