I noticed a lot of digital nomads have to take a pay cut or have money saved up. Is it even possible to be a US citizen and have a remote job with good pay? I say this because if I want to live in a foreign country for say 3-6 months and then return back the US I don’t want to be making only 30k a year.
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The key is to get a good job and make it remote. I work as technical VP at one of the Luxembourgish startups, making around 120k€/year, which is more than enough in most of the remote places worldwide if you are careful spender. I travel back once per 2-3 months for a week or so to keep in touch with a team and give good impression on my own cost but it is good to see parents and old friends once a while anyway. I started with staying all the time in the country but working from home when traveling around Europe and coming back once per two weeks, when once per month and at now it is few times per year. It took me around 2 years to achieve that.
Many modern american corporations allow this. I am not even a US citizen and I work for a US company internationally with US level wages.
No they don’t
The trick is to get a fully remote job in the US- one that is asynchronous and doesn’t have a significant time-zone dependency, and then travel.
At minimum, I would quadruple my salary if I just moved back to the States and got a regular gig in my industry. Likely much more.
But instead of that, I recently absorbed a huge salary cut. Because my company knows Im not going to do that. And my company knows how hard it is for me to replace this gig as a remote worker. Capitalism 101.
High paying jobs with an extraordinary work/life balance are unicorns, no matter how you cut it.
Not the same as US domestic jobs, because realistically why would they hire you if they’re international, and not someone who is fine with $30K a year?
That being said, I have seen jobs that are okay paying (maybe 30-40% pay cut vs US as opposed to 80%) but they are few and far between and very competitive.
it depends on your skill set. i don’t take a discount on my rate because i’m outside the country. someone who is fine making $30k a year for the same job is probably going to suck at it. been there, had to fix that.
the number of things i’ve had to fix/fires i’ve had to put out from companies skimping on their staff because they want to be cheap is crazy and almost always cost them more in then end than just paying fairly would have cost.
Sure. But based on your comment about rate, I’m guessing you’re a contractor and not a full time employee? Contractors get more leeway here than FTEs
Yes, very possible
I don’t want to be making only 30k a year
come to the uk
If you are asking for high paying remote jobs for US companies, I guess software engineering/programmer suits this category pretty well.
Where you live and what you make are two independent variables - at least for an individual.
I make mid 6 figures USD.
I think the poors are just most vocal trying to only eat street food and work out of hostels
We hire globally for remote sales .
I’m an enterprise SDR remote. Looking for a change…Wanna chat?
Sure.
Yes lying to them
based, will do
Probably need a secure VPN too
Yes it is possible, just harder to find. I have worked for two US based companies while abroad, making six figures.
How did you find those jobs?
I taught myself how to code, worked in a non-remote job for a year and a half, then found a remote job through an online job board.
lol yes please share
Yeah I currently make over 150K/year full remote, international included, but in my case I started at a third of that, at the same company, non-remote, and worked extremely hard for a few years before asking to go remote.
I tried that approach with the first company I worked at. They eventually gave me permission to work from any country that they had an office in (large western European countries, Japan, Australia, US) but I wanted more freedom so I took a new job with a slight pay cut that let me work anywhere. I built up my salary within that company over a couple years, then changed jobs, getting a significant raise in the process.
Actual W2 jobs, extremely rare and difficult to find. Contract work is a lot easier to get while nomading, it’s still harder than finding non-remote stuff though.
yes, it’s possible if you have the experience to sell it. and you should research FEIE as the savings there can be huge.