His Majesty’s Treasury Head of Cyber Security salary: £57500

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  • supafuzz [comrade/them]
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    8 months ago

    lol, lmao

    UK tryin to pretend it's a player in the modern tech world while paying people less than interns make in California

    • CoolerOpposide [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      8 months ago

      The entire UK is a country sized Potemkin Village set up by the United States to let the terf islanders live out their remaining days in peace while the rest of the world kindly plays along.

      “You know back in my day the sun never set on our glorious empire”

      Oh wow gran that’s amazing. How would you like some mushy peas huh? That sounds good, right?

    • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      It's less than ten years since the British goverment spent several years trying to ban encryption entirely until eventually enough poeple they trust told them they were fucking idiots and it would destroy the economy overnight.

      • EmoThugInMyPhase [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        It would be funny if British colleges complied and stopped teaching about encryption and all the fresh government hires have no idea what any of it means

        • Wolfman86 [he/him, comrade/them]
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          8 months ago

          What’s cost of living like though?

          In fairness I reckon you could piss away three and a half grand a month away fairly easily in London.

          • supafuzz [comrade/them]
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            8 months ago

            What’s cost of living like though?

            obscene, you're considered low income in the bay area if you make <$104k

              • supafuzz [comrade/them]
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                8 months ago

                https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/low-income-median-levels-18164328.php not in 3 counties

                • AcidLeaves [they/them, he/him]
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                  8 months ago

                  Idk, I live here and I think the numbers are inflated because of tech bros tbh

                  100k = 65k after taxes

                  You can find a nice studio in downtown or 1 bedroom outside downtown center for 1.6-2.2k, after utils. Ignore the median rent in the article, it's cause of all the luxury apartments that are needlessly expensive for tech bros

                  65k = 5.4k /month

                  After taxes and rent you have 3.4k a month?

                  In a city that's tiny and has a workable public transit system so you also don't need a car

            • Wolfman86 [he/him, comrade/them]
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              8 months ago

              Yeah, I’ve heard that. Got mentioned in a thing about the Cecil Hotel, in San Francisco, how basically no one can afford to live in downtown LA or SF. Interesting to hear it off an actual person.

    • AcidLeaves [they/them, he/him]
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      8 months ago

      I think this is also what the average new grad makes in London in the private sector...

      Certainly half of what new grads are paid at the big players

  • Acute_Engles [he/him, any]
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    8 months ago

    Help I based my economy around generating wealth for shareholders but I also need things that don't generate wealth to get done.... Unsolvable problem

    • CoolerOpposide [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      8 months ago

      Which of these will better protect my country:

      One plane that works sometimes

      Putting a competent person in charge of protecting the entire online monetary system

  • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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    8 months ago

    That's like $70k USD lmao, plus it's in one of the most expensive cities on earth. I would assume that they'd be paying a junior cyber security analyst more than that.

    • CoolerOpposide [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      8 months ago

      You seem to be forgetting how low stress being the head of cyber security for the department that controls all of the money must be

  • BigHaas [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    Sometimes I mention security at work and my coworkers literally laugh. Luckily we're a utility so none of the customers can leave.

  • ZWQbpkzl [none/use name]
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    8 months ago

    His Majesties...

    Royals being unimaginably stupid yet again. That position was absolutely for some little lordling's career starter.

  • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
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    8 months ago

    Yeah. Our salaries are fucked.

    Up til recently (pre 12 years of Tories), salaries were a bit better, but mostly the cost of living was in line with the salaries, when you factor in all of the good public healthcare services and railways, even arts/culture.

    Then they privatised all the railways and began making the NHS more and more private, while depressing wages of anything that wasn't to do with financial speculation and property.

    In London that's all multiplied - finance is very rich, and your average non finance salary should conform to the set London Living Wage (which is higher than the rest of England). The London Living Wage is now however disproportionate to the cost of living. My rents gone up by 300 quid in 3 years, while my house and location have gotten worse and worse.

    And now here we are. Pretty much everyone's feeling it. Anything that's not a fat moneymaker is shutting down, so the city has become more and more soulless, giving even less reason to live there other than to chase a bigger salary.

  • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    You can easily make over $200k a year as Head of Cybersecurity in most places.

  • Adkml [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    Pay peanuts, enjoy watching the circus.

  • bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    Entry level pay from a state govt position is higher than that where I live.

    For something that stressful, that’s not even enough pay to respond to an email, much less orchestrate policy or risk management or even manage a team.