"400 rubles. You won't believe it, IT people existed before mammoths." IT professionals recall their first salary in Threads

@v_nikuca

$600. That was mega money for me in 2023. I left accounting with toxic management.

@solomonko

800 UAH. But I was happy like a child, because it was more than 5 times my scholarship.

@servitpol

Well, here's what exactly counts as an IT job:

1998 — on vacation at the toy library,

20-30 UAH per day. What was the exchange rate?

2003 — assembled computers, earned about $200.

2010 — manager at a company that sold computers, salary around $500-700.

2013 — ATM/TSO engineer (bank IT department) — $700-900.

2016 — SEO specialist $500.

2017 — developer $300.

@vicky_victoria86

In 2019, with €2,500 in cash, I was a green-green June, my secret was that I worked in Copenhagen.

@kirpitchec

400 karbovanets (Soviet rubles). You won't believe it, IT specialists existed before mammoths. Someone has a grandmother in a pot on a mantelpiece, and here I am, like your great-great IT specialist alive.

@andrii_joy

$1415 is a strange number that I never managed to understand.

@weekend.investor.ua

Also, somewhere around $250 at the exchange rate will be about 3k UAH, I added another thousand to my first salary and bought a shitty bike to get to the office.

@martakerez

Somewhere in 2012-2013, I was still in my 4th year, I was hired as a non-tester for $350, it was constantly increasing and in a couple of years it was already $750…at this figure my IT career ended. What was the rate there, I was already 100, probably 20-25 UAH per $.

@oleksii_demydenko

500 UAH/month minus taxes. In 2003, it was slightly above the average salary — something like $100. $50 of that went to rent an apartment. While I was a student, I earned at least 100 UAH/day doing repairs, but I had to make a choice — either continue to work on construction sites, but not deny myself anything, or look for something in my specialty and put my teeth on the shelf.