Its because hiring people overseas usually require larger companies to have offices locally. There are a lot of cultural differences. So unless they do it at scale, it just generates more costs.
Discussion
That's true.
I work with developers from lithuania and portugal from time to time ... they say the same about german salaries as we do about those in the us …
We have Romanian colleagues who are pretty cheap, in comparison to us.
i'm currently thinking about working as a dev again .... but the last time i did that was over 10 years ago 😅
but in the last few weeks i've seen vacancys for devs under 65k salary....