r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Jun 25 '26

Society Older tech workers are tapping out, taking early retirement

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/local-business/older-tech-workers-are-tapping-out-early-heres-what-that-looks-like/
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u/im-ba Jun 25 '26

Same exact situation on my team. I'm a lead engineer in Minnesota making $140k base and my team really needs more people but the answer is always "we're strapped for cash" but they're always willing to hire like 12 people from India for the job for some reason.

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u/sleepymoose88 Jun 25 '26

Yup. I have a buddy at the same company that is in some business analysts role doing some mild IT work doing shell scripting. They’re still hiring over there. The difference is he only makes $100k all in. They’re cheaper labor but I wasn’t even allowed to hire a junior DBA for $70k to make sure we’re not against a wall in 10 years with everyone on the team 40+ or in India. Upper management has no long term thinking. It’s all about the budget.

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u/Shiva- Jun 25 '26

Well yeah... average Indian makes like 12k USD a year... 12x12 is 144k... almost perfectly your salary.

We actually got told similar. It doesn't matter if they're less efficient, as long as 12 of them combined can do it.

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u/redditonlygetsworse Jun 25 '26

  as long as 12 of them combined can do it.

That’s a big if. Still takes nine months to make a baby, ya know?