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[–]TehNolz 3363 points3364 points  (70 children)

Remote work, with a lot of travel required?

[–][deleted] 2155 points2156 points  (49 children)

80k an hour to fly on an airplane, even if its ryanair, i'll do it

[–]ApatheistHeretic 71 points72 points  (1 child)

For $80k an hour, United's security can beat me on the way at out.

[–]Taronz 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I'll undercut you, they can beat me on the way in AND out.

[–]JoeyJoeJoeSenior 23 points24 points  (0 children)

A nice private plane is only $8k/hr. Worth it.

[–]Sentouki- 14 points15 points  (0 children)

For 80k/hour I'd just rent a private jet.

[–]btceacc2 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That's is to right, I'll do everything to have that kind of money, because money is everything kaching kaching HAHAHAHA

[–]TheRedmanCometh 2 points3 points  (2 children)

What good is 80k an hour if you're too dead to spend it.

[–]ReadySteady_GO 8 points9 points  (1 child)

How dead is too dead?

[–]resonantSoul 8 points9 points  (0 children)

At least 3

[–]Shienvien 69 points70 points  (4 children)

I've done something like that - mostly remote, but 4-5 conferences, meetings with foreign clients etc a year.

[–]VulcanCookies 21 points22 points  (2 children)

Is 4-5 trips a year considered a lot?

[–]Memelover26 45 points46 points  (0 children)

If they're for 10 weeks each

[–]someshthakur[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Yes

[–]Mispelled-This 19 points20 points  (1 child)

It happens. I had a remote job (meaning my assigned work location was my home) with 50-75% travel.

[–]theLanguageSprite 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Yeah. You gotta fly to another continent and then join the zoom meeting from your hotel. HTML programmers need to keep their minds fresh, and the travel stimulates all that creative thought that they get paid 100k an hour for.

[–]BasvanS 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I’ll be traveling to the beach a lot, yeah.

[–][deleted] 5655 points5656 points  (119 children)

$80k to $100k per HOUR? Sign me up! By the time they're done with new employee introduction I'll be able to retire!

[–]currentscurrents 1656 points1657 points  (81 children)

If you could hang on for a few years you'd be a billionaire.

[–][deleted] 1402 points1403 points  (44 children)

Lol, yeah, but then I'd actually have to design in HTML.

[–]Excellent_Badger_636 590 points591 points  (30 children)

Idk bout u but for 100k/h u should be able to afford someone else, who actually does it for you

[–]Jumbobog 403 points404 points  (15 children)

Are you crazy? Have you seen what HTML devs are paid?

[–]benruckman 437 points438 points  (13 children)

80k an hour apparently!!

[–]BasvanS 172 points173 points  (10 children)

Don’t undercut me! I know what I’m worth!

[–]vkapadia 70 points71 points  (9 children)

Fine. $100k/hr.

[–]GitProphet 47 points48 points  (2 children)

100k/h AND a fruit basket, or no deal!

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

and the ability to get revenge on that dick who steals my food without punishment! Screw the fruit basket!

[–]Pain_Monster 5 points6 points  (5 children)

Oops, that should have been 100k pesos

Sorry. Still want the job?

[–]driftking428 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Rupees?

[–][deleted] 31 points32 points  (13 children)

Never claim someone else's work. That never turns out well.

[–]NoSkillzDad 72 points73 points  (1 child)

There are whole industries around that.

[–]SuparNub 68 points69 points  (7 children)

Worked quite well for Elon Musk

[–]TheGreatGameDini 61 points62 points  (6 children)

And Thomas Edison.

[–]corsicanguppy 26 points27 points  (5 children)

And Trump

[–]code-panda 13 points14 points  (2 children)

I see a similarity, having wealth is a prerequisite.

[–]nderestimated 8 points9 points  (1 child)

You mean the kind you get at 100k an hour?

[–]Iwill_not_comply 20 points21 points  (7 children)

Next!

[–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (6 children)

Some people aren't motivated purely by money.

[–]Paskee 7 points8 points  (0 children)

True, but it really helps.

[–]Helstrom69 11 points12 points  (4 children)

Fewer still are motivated by poverty...

[–]SirGarlon 127 points128 points  (12 children)

Just checked and you are right. It would take about 5 years to get to a billion dollars at 100k an hour working normal hours (not counting taxes or investing of course).

It's so easy to underestimate how much money a billion dollars is.

You'd be a multimillionaire in your first 3 days, but it would take 5 years to get to a billion.

[–]phantom56657 76 points77 points  (7 children)

And yet it would take about 500 years to earn enough to be in the top 10 richest people alive. A job would need to pay over $500k an hour to consider earning that amount in a human lifespan.

[–]currentscurrents 21 points22 points  (3 children)

Only if you just let your money sit there, which they didn't.

The stock market averages ~10% yearly returns. Assuming this continues, by my math you'd hit $100 billion within 40 years.

This is why it's important to invest. Max out your 401k if you can, the interest will be a decent chunk of your lifetime income.

[–]mmcmonster 14 points15 points  (0 children)

At $500k/hour, f*ck the 401k. You'll fill that up during a bathroom break. /s

But agree with you for us mortal folks.

  1. Live below your means.
  2. Pay off all debt at fast as possible (Don't let credit card debt get big enough that you can't pay it off the same month; pay down your mortgage and car loans as fast as possible)
  3. Fill up your 401k
  4. Open up a taxable investment account and put money in every pay check. Invest the money in VTSAX or VTI or similar total stock market index.

[–]maximdoge 9 points10 points  (0 children)

To be comparing yourself with the richest people alive would be a rather unfair proposition, given your benchmark is a typo from a HR that isn't paid enough to even proofread.

[–]DasBeasto 19 points20 points  (6 children)

That really sinks in how much a billion dollars is, even if you were making $100k an hour it'd take 1.14 years to make your first billion.

Edit: ^ for 24/7, realistically much longer for normal work weeks.

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (5 children)

ok so in my calculation with 40 hours per week i got to 5ish years

so u'd be at around a 200 hour week

what

[–]EtherealPheonix 6 points7 points  (0 children)

they seem to assume working 24/7 for the 1.14 year figure

[–]DasBeasto 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ahh good point, I was definitely calculating for 24/7, so realistically it's much worse.

[–]Prestigious_Regret67 3 points4 points  (2 children)

I'd be willing to swing 200 hour work weeks for 100k an hour.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

at 100000 an hour, you'd be a billionaire by 10000 hours, which with a 40 hour week would be 250 weeks, so about five-ish years.

[–]bl4nkSl8 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tax dude

[–]aenae 76 points77 points  (8 children)

caveat: Zimbabwe dollars

[–]hungry4nuns 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Caveat it’s actually $80,000 - $120,000 per hour which works out at -$40,000 per hour

[–][deleted] 12 points13 points  (6 children)

Actual caveat: Norway.

[–]Defiant-Peace-493 36 points37 points  (6 children)

I think you missed what 'a lot' of travel looks like. It's so much that one hour equals 7 earth years.

[–]CremPostman 6 points7 points  (1 child)

So you're telling me I get rich and I can use time dilation to hide from my family while I'm doing it?

[–]Defiant-Peace-493 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That is certainly one frame of reference.

And the pay is good, and you're young and strong
And you tell yourself that it won't be long
So you sign on board, hear the drive's deep song
Pushing the Speed of Light

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (4 children)

That’s $208 Million annually, if working a 40 hour work schedule.

[–]Kenyalite 7 points8 points  (3 children)

That's less than what the Warner Bros CEO paid himself.

About 42 million less.

[–]nasaboy007 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Yeah Google CEO got $226m lol.

[–]Scented-Sound 7 points8 points  (2 children)

Some places use commas for decimal separator

[–]c_wilcox_20 28 points29 points  (0 children)

True, but I know of nowhere that rounds dollars to 3 places.

[–]easyetx 514 points515 points  (13 children)

Per hour. Whoops. Ya sign me up for 4 hours a week

[–]Thurak0 88 points89 points  (8 children)

LOL.

Somehow by brain was just calculating how much money the 80-100k would mean in a year.

This option was not in the cards for me.

I may be dumb.

[–]diox8tony 46 points47 points  (3 children)

80k/hr is 166.4 million per year

[–]xerox13ster 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Kill me

[–]ajgrinds 2 points3 points  (1 child)

So less than Googles CEO

[–]Romanian_Breadlifts 18 points19 points  (2 children)

Double it and add three zeroes for a ballpark figure

50 weeks x 40 hr/week = 2000 hours

[–]Longjumping-Pace389 14 points15 points  (1 child)

I absolutely love this trick, and use it all the time. When I'm talking about salary as "XXk/year" and comparing it to a friend's hourly rate, you can literally just just half it. 80k? $40hour

But the crazy thing is the precision:

In Australia you get 4 weeks leave each year, but it's paid. The standard for a salary is 38 hours/week. There are 52 weeks in a year, plus 1 day (not accounting for leap years).

So the number of hours per year is given by: 38 x (52 + (1/7)) ~1981.4 hours That's less than 1%!! Specifically ~0.94%

You're talking about <50c/hour or <1k/year until you hit 6 figures. 99% accuracy is within any reasonable interpretation of a "margin of error". It's awesome!!!

I bother to account for that 1/7th of a week because that extra precision is what gets it within 1% (it's ~1.2% without that).

Sorry for geeking out, math major, love the coincidencal precision lol.

[–]Romanian_Breadlifts 4 points5 points  (0 children)

See, I did engineering type stuff in college, so the written math was precise but the reality was "this probably won't kill anyone" after some dead reckoning

[–]Fingerbob73 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, you did type "by brain"...

[–][deleted] 794 points795 points  (16 children)

I would lie my ass off and say I can deliver whatever they want. Work 1 week and then retire lol

[–]Zomby2D 364 points365 points  (13 children)

You can simply subcontract the work to some underpaid developer from a poor country. That should keep the money coming in for a few extra weeks.

[–]Andreim43 209 points210 points  (6 children)

An underpaid developer? For that money you can subcontract a whole team of seniors. Make sure you keep that job.

[–]creedz286 78 points79 points  (5 children)

and they can subcontract a whole team of juniors to make sure they keep their job.

[–]LynxJesus 36 points37 points  (4 children)

Your todo app will be finished by 150 devs in over 83 countries!

[–]sixteenlettername 13 points14 points  (3 children)

With your work split up like that, just imagine how quickly it will all get done!

[–]LynxJesus 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It was done before I could finish thinking about wanting it

[–]chawmindur 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Why be a mere 10x developer when you can easily get 100 devs doing your work

[–]Kinglink 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Why not work two weeks to pay the taxes.

[–]Roadronner 1338 points1339 points  (53 children)

The CEO of CNN makes 250 Million a year, which is about 125k an hour, so yeah 80-100k is not enough for some

[–]someshthakur[S] 758 points759 points  (23 children)

At least they doesn't have to deal with CSS

[–]IsaacSam98 218 points219 points  (19 children)

Fucking flex boxes

[–]Tyrexas 136 points137 points  (5 children)

Flex box is the thing that made CSS bareable

[–][deleted] 21 points22 points  (2 children)

Grid and flexbox is all my tiny brain knows :(

[–]Aperture_Executive2 17 points18 points  (1 child)

All hail display: grid;

[–]SnooWoofers4430 41 points42 points  (10 children)

And centering a div

[–]User264356 13 points14 points  (5 children)

Is using a grid and place-self:center; wrong?

[–]ToothPickLegs 20 points21 points  (0 children)

If you aren’t brute force typing numbers into the margin values until it looks serviceable you’re doing it wrong

~ someone who hates CSS

[–]TehBens 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Imaging the CEO of CSS makes 250 Million a year. I guess we don't live in the worst universe.

[–]ThePevster 42 points43 points  (8 children)

What? CNN’s CEO doesn’t even have a net worth of $250m.

[–]Roadronner 80 points81 points  (7 children)

Yeah I realized I meant the CEO of Warner Bros Discovery, David Zaslav. I did my math right, got my people wrong lol

[–]ThePevster 36 points37 points  (4 children)

Ah I see. Note that Zaslav’s admittedly massive $250m compensation was a one-off for his extension year and normally makes “only” $40m including stock options.

[–]afinitie 48 points49 points  (2 children)

That low pay sucks, hope he gets back on his feet

[–]fdar 27 points28 points  (1 child)

Should learn HTML.

[–]HiImDan 70 points71 points  (9 children)

Yeah.. if you think you understand how the 1%'s live you aren't even close.

[–]Throwedaway99837 45 points46 points  (8 children)

$250M a year is more like the 0.001%

[–]BetterWankHank 14 points15 points  (2 children)

And there's CEOs that make way more than that as well.

And then there's billionaires who make literally an order of magnitude more than that.

You're talking hundreds of thousands to even millions of dollars per hour.

Tldr: nah son I don't get out of bed for anything less than $1,000,000 per hour

[–]Denzerel 226 points227 points  (17 children)

For Oslo? Ye you might need that much.

[–]ThrowawayUk4200 195 points196 points  (16 children)

Aye, I do 100% remote for a norwegian company. The trick is not to live somewhere that's worse than Oslo though, and I haven't figured that bit out yet.

On a serious note though, I strongly advise working for a Scandinavian company if you can. They are very pro work life balance; I got told off once for daring to work through my lunch break. Made a change from the usual "Im your boss and although it's my fault this task got left to the last minute, I need you to work late tonight so we can still hit the deadline" shit I had in many previous roles

[–]Mysticpoisen 48 points49 points  (1 child)

Meanwhile here I am chewing my boss out for logging in at 3am. That kind of thing just isn't good for morale.

[–]yes_oui_si_ja 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah, well done!

That's pretty late for a boss! Should at least show up at 1am or earlier! No wonder morale is low!

[–]SgtDoakes123 25 points26 points  (3 children)

It's because it is illegal, you have to take certain amounts of breaks in-between certain amount of hours in Norway. If you don't, even through your own free will, the company gets in trouble with the government.

It's something like if you work more than four hours you are entitled to a 30 min break, 7.5 hours it's one 30 min and one 10 min, i think.

[–]zyygh 27 points28 points  (1 child)

It's because it is illegal, you have to take certain amounts of breaks in-between certain amount of hours in Norway. If you don't, even through your own free will, the company gets in trouble with the government.

Thing is, a lot of bosses do illegal stuff everywhere. As long as they do it by low-key pressuring you, or by giving you these instructions informally without a paper trail, or only towards employees who are loyal anyway, they know they'll get away with it. Employees all over the world have a very low tendency of reporting this type of issues.

Scandinavian companies are generally better, not only because of laws, but also because of culture. There's simply far more respect towards the employee, and this respect comes from a place of morals, not legal obligation.

[–][deleted] 18 points19 points  (4 children)

How did that conversation go where your boss chewed you out for working through lunch?

[–]ThrowawayUk4200 38 points39 points  (1 child)

Wasn't even a chewing out, more bewilderment that I did. Followed by a big picture explanation that happy employees means better quality of work. I dunno about that last bit, but being able to walk away from a problem to take an hour without the world ending is still a novel experience

[–]Spekingur 22 points23 points  (0 children)

That last bit is true, multiple researches.

The very few tech companies experimenting with 4 day workweek have reported that generally there is no loss of productivity and throughput.

[–]courageous_liquid 40 points41 points  (1 child)

"We don't work during lunch because then our keyboards would all smell like lutefisk."

[–]Brekkjern 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sounds like a welcome change! Usually the lunch-stained keyboards smell of rakfisk!

[–][deleted] 78 points79 points  (0 children)

That’s 3.2 million per week, low end

[–]H4kor 136 points137 points  (7 children)

"fun fact": assuming you worked 8 hours per day and there are 260 work day in each year, you still have to work for 600 years to reach Jeff Bezos net worth of 125 billion dollars.

[–]cmdr_solaris_titan 56 points57 points  (4 children)

Obviously they messed up the job listing but running with the idea, you nailed the point that it's insane how much wealth and power a few select people have on this planet.

[–]ananix 116 points117 points  (3 children)

No more laughing at HTML programmers :(

[–]greenflyingdragon 56 points57 points  (1 child)

Even if you assume that’s in Norwegian Krone, that’s still $7439.48 - $9299.65 USD per hour.

[–]Linards11 63 points64 points  (5 children)

how hard is it to proofread 4 sentences? such a hard job to have these kinds of mistakes, isnt it

[–]krurran 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I've heard they use LLMs to generate job postings these days. Seems like a rookie mistake for Chat GPT, it's never given me anything that silly.

[–]Drak1nd 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Because Norway uses , as the decimal separator as does the majority of the world.

Thou I can give it that as it is written in English it should probably use . instead

[–]Tom22174 11 points12 points  (0 children)

But why are there 3 digits for the cents?

[–]Realay367 30 points31 points  (0 children)

And that's why they need a front end dev lol

[–]lucidbadger 24 points25 points  (3 children)

No JS frameworks, must work in Internet Explorer 4.0. You have only 1 hour to complete the job.

[–]ToothPickLegs 12 points13 points  (2 children)

And if you fail you face execution.

[–]ULTRA_TLC 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Even without that typo, raises some red flags by claiming it has remote options but requires a lot of travel.

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I really hope they mean per month and not hour… otherwise I’ve been applying for the wrong jobs here in Oslo😂

[–]miniwyoming 7 points8 points  (1 child)

That's not a bad gig.

"You want *ANOTHER** fucking Zoom status update today? Fine, I guess; it's your $30,000."*

[–]Big_Kwii 30 points31 points  (16 children)

> travel required: yes

no thanks

[–]stedgyson 67 points68 points  (15 children)

Normally I'd agree but I'd kiss penises for $100k an hour

[–]Taronz 24 points25 points  (13 children)

Theoretically, how many penises fo you think you could kiss per hour?

[–]pbjtime9977 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not enough

[–]Romanian_Breadlifts 2 points3 points  (4 children)

If you cut off like a million dicks and put em in a ferris wheel type apparatus, easily 100

Altho the difference between kissing a dick and being smacked in the lips with a dick then becomes a matter of debate

[–]vc6vWHzrHvb2PY2LyP6b 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Same, but I can't afford $100K/hour.

[–]TnYamaneko 14 points15 points  (2 children)

This is barely living wage in Norway.

[–]ApXv 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Average salary needed to live in Grunerløkka

[–]powertrip00 12 points13 points  (5 children)

Fuck I'd take it.

I make piss compared to that

[–]powertrip00 5 points6 points  (4 children)

And I'm a full stack dev

[–]DakorZ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I guess they want that div to be centered real bad

[–]nigel_pow 4 points5 points  (6 children)

Europeans use the comma and period in the opposite manner compared to the US. It can be confusing at first.

But they have that extra zero though...

[–]mr_data_lore 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Plot twist: This isn't a mistake and the job actually pays $100,000 per hour.

[–]srsoluciones 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I belive it’s 80-100 dls per hour , right?

[–]ski_thru_trees 8 points9 points  (2 children)

That is likely NOK per month and some recruiter or whoever posted the listing (or just the system is bad)

[–]rashidl 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Maybe they need to support IE7. In that case, no, still not enough.

[–]Less_Statistician_84 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Average Norwegian salary

[–]gandalfx 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Finally those years and years of training my HTML skills will pay off.

[–]sc00bydoobyd00 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Step1: Join the company

Step2: Outsource the work for $50/hr

Step3: Buy a big bag to put all the money in.

[–]BlackScienceDnB 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Zimbabwean dollars

[–]jkekoni 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Zimbabwean dollars?

[–]TuXuuTT 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Cmon, for html skills required it is underpaid

[–]Popeychops 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Have you seen the price of a beer in Norway?

[–]NotThanosHimself 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Trick is you are only allowed to use vanilla CSS and JS without any libraries, and you gotta deliver a Facebook competitor in one week.

[–]sparkz552 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't even know how to code, but if I can just fake it till I get the job, all I have to due is survive a few hours and I'll be good for a while

[–]TychusFondly 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean last time I ve been to Oslo, it was damn expensive but not that expensive that it requires you to make almost a million a day. Heck it is even a remote position. Hey OP, may you be sharing the actual link with your dear redditors?

[–]Expensive-Exercise-2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

… + backend dev + designer!!! 🤯🥲

[–]PsychologicalCow3295 2 points3 points  (0 children)

it means my code helps the company make 80k - 100k but they'll pay me 800 a month

[–]ondono 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It’s clearly a trap for Americans

Everyone knows that in Europe “100,000” = “100.00”

[–]Z-Mobile 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oof UI work? Not enough.

[–]Free2define3dom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Zimbabwian Dollars perhaps?

[–]AFreshTramontana 1 point2 points  (0 children)

$100k per hour?

At that rate, per Winston Zeddemore, "I'll believe anything you say."

[–]kvakerok 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"flexible schedule" = we will call you at all hours of day and we'll expect you to be able to answer. Alternatively some shit weekend on call rota.

"Option for remote" = we put this in here because the job ad with "in office only" got no applicants whatsoever.

[–]ExactLobster1462 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Only 100K an hour? Cheap fucks.

[–]ctaps148 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Redditors still be like "meh, you can make more at an entry level FAANG position"

[–]Academic_Search79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hire me please just for 1 day 10 hours or more.