Atlassian founder says no-one wants to move to Australia as its too expensive

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3494187/The-tech-billionaire-founder-Atlassian-says-no-one-wants-Australia-houses-transport-education-expensive.html

by CPAhem • 10 years ago

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abrak• 10 years ago

Can't they compensate by providing a better salary package?

fileoffset2• 10 years ago

They could but then they would have to pay more than current 'market' rate for senior engineers in Australia.

This makes importing talent much less attractive, as they may as well just hire local (so long as the talent exists in the local talent pool - which it does).

cyphar• 10 years ago

But if you factor in the fact that we have the best beaches in the world, the cost of living becomes more reasonable. :P

earleybird• 10 years ago

With a USD$1.63bn net worth, Mr Mike Cannon-Brookes could afford to pay ten(10) Software Engineers 34% over the top market rate [0] at USD$100k/yr for 10 years and it would reduce his net worth to USD$1.62bn.

Is this how the wealthy pan handle?

[0] http://www.payscale.com/research/AU/Job=Software_Engineer/Sa...

fileoffset2• 10 years ago

It's not that no-one wants to move to Australia, it's just they don't want to move to Sydney...

danieltillett• 10 years ago

Actually the do want to Sydney - they just can't afford the rent on the salaries offered.

Atlassian founder says no-one wants to move to Australia as its too expensive

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