Last week, I wrote about the rise of Fractional remote jobs, following many question about my Fractional CTO work and the recent workshop I lectu

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2024-04-16 11:30:12

Last week, I wrote about the rise of Fractional remote jobs, following many question about my Fractional CTO work and the recent workshop I lectured at the Remote Jobs Braintrust on this topic.

Still, the Fractional opportunities are still a fringe of the market, compared to full time remote jobs. As I get through testing the JobsCopilot.ai with different profiles, skill sets and seniority profiles I come to realise that remote work is much bigger than I had imagined myself.

Today I'm telling you about Salary Arbitrage, the biggest opportunity in remote work. Take a look at this chart from the recent Stack Overflow Developer Survey:

The US is the country with highest salaries, with a minimum of ~$110k/year reported. But, on the opposite end of the list, the highest salary reported in Pakistan is ~$16k/year. So, if the highest paid Software Developer in Pakistan lands a remote US job earning a "low" US salary, that means an almost 7x salary increase. Mind blowing stuff!

What's even more impressive is that even for countries deemed as "developed" and having "high salaries", the gap to those US salaries is still huge.