What are you even talking about? The median yearly take home pay (sorry, don't know the right word for it) in my middle-of-the-pack EU country is around $16k.

Let me say that again, this country is in 35th place out of 193 by GDP per capita and this is how much people make here.

Yeah, my bad. My comment is very US-centric. At the same time, cost of living is likely much higher in the US, so that also makes a difference in the comparison.

Anyways, median income in the US is near $50k/yr (around $1k/week: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/wkyeng.pdf)

People in the US don't realize how rich we are because we spend the money extremely poorly.

California's GDP will exceed Germany's soon. With less than half of the population. That'll make it the 4th largest economy in the world.

What? Maybe in 4 or 5 countries in the world. In the rest, 43K is high-pay for juniors.

Double the median income is not good enough for juniors?

Is that double the median income of juniors in similar tech positions or the general median that contains part-time workers and jobs that require no education at all?

Median US income is $1k/week, which is more than this. (https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/wkyeng.pdf)

I mean, fair point, my comment was US-centric. But developers in the US should advocate for much more than that!

Lol, no. Not good salary. Good for everyone considering applying.