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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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[–] PuzzledCommission620@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We hire globally for remote sales .

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[–] Portmonteau@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] AaronLan@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

If you are asking for high paying remote jobs for US companies, I guess software engineering/programmer suits this category pretty well.

[–] gitshrekd@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Lacicek@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

US citizenship gives you access to the largest pool of high-paying remote jobs in the world, so, yeah, it is possible to be a US citizen and have a remote job with good pay.
People dealt much worse cards do make it work. The average salary in the country I'm from is 24k a year, for instance, and fully remote jobs are very rare.

[–] RemoteUs_r@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Just do freelancing

[–] BNeutral@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Yes. Getting them is the hard part.

[–] ElTalento@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I have a very high paying job that is remote. As long as I am in Europe, they don’t care. And I have the feeling I could go somewhere else and they would agree to that as long as I am available. My company is in the US and I relocated from on country in the EU to another and they didn’t change my contract. They were fine with it.

[–] ukacunt@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

i sort of do. I have to travel to certain locations but in between I can be wherever I want. I am on about USD200k p.a. TC.

[–] emt139@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Sure it is but again, it all depends on your skills.

[–] JasonDrifthouse@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

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.

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