paparaka / livingexpenses

An analysis of the living expenses and expected salaries in different countries

Living Expenses Comparison

Compare the living cost, salaries and taxes across several countries

Functionality

Currently there is no way to autmatically grab the necessary data, but if you save it to a csv file you can:

• Compare salaries between different countries (in a currency of your choice)
• Compare expenses between countries and their cities
• Calculate an expense model that involves: rent, utilities, food, transport, eating & drinking out
• Match the expense model for that city/country with the expeted salaries and see where you will be "better" payed
• Compare the tax rates of different countries (see the plot bellow)

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History

This project began as a small R script that was supposed to help me figure out different salaries and expenses across several countries and industries. It soon started to grow, invlving online questionaires and polls and data science. I then wrote a series of articles on Medium: https://medium.com/@nedjalkov.ivan.j/living-expenses-salaries-with-data-738ab830d03b

The next logical step was to make this porject public and help others quantify their job seeking experience.

Future goal

• Collect data on as many countries as possible
• Shinny app where people can compare only the data they want
• Paper describing some of the findings

TODOs

• Automatically fetch currency data
• Crawl web pages to gather salaries/expenses data

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Example

livingexpenses's Issues

Typeform error messages, why not use open source alternative?

Hey paparaka!

My name is Johannes, I am one of the co-founders of Formbricks (https://formbricks.com/)

We're building open-source form and survey infrastructure and will release our API this week. I'd love to hear more about what you have built with Typeform and how your developer experience has been.

We are looking for people exactly like you trying to tape custom code to Typeform. Many don't have the greatest experience and we would like to know what we should do right to get everyone building on top of Formbricks in the future.

If you have Discord we could chat there at https://formbricks.com/discord

Cheers
Johannes