Mexicans who work in the sector technology They reach average salaries of up to $74,000 dollars annually (1.3 million pesos), which is 42% more than they could earn working for a local company, according to data from Deel, a Human Resources platform specialized in hiring global teams. .
According to the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE), it is expected that around 150,000 jobs will be generated in the technology sector by 2025, but there continues to be a skills gap that is essential to resolve. Therefore, there is a window of opportunity for those who want to change their career or for those who are beginning their preparation for the world of work.
Those who dare to take the step towards a career in the world of technology can triple their salary, at least that is what many of the graduates of Henry have done, a technology academy that invests in the education of Latin Americans, offering them a program of Six-month training with zero start-up cost.
Sophisticate Mexican talent
“Companies seek to find the best talent, no matter where it is” and this phenomenon, although more recurrent, is not limited to startups, but to large, already consolidated companies, points out Michelle Cascardo, Director of Business Development at Deel.
The company observes that in the last year, the number of Mexicans hired from abroad has increased 77%. The nationals work remotely mainly for the markets of the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Chile and Colombia. The majority and the best paid are systems engineers and software developers.
The pandemic triggered the trend of companies looking for remote talent globally, but there was no turning back.
A little over a year ago, Y Combinator warned investors and entrepreneurs to “prepare for the worst”, in the face of an environment of interrupted supply chains, the beginning of a cycle of monetary tightening worldwide and the prospects of recession in USA.
A few months later, Silicon Valley became recurring news due to a wave of layoffs at Amazon, Meta, Twitter, Microsoft and other large technology companies. But this situation was not enough to reverse the digitalization trends in all industries; they were even exacerbated with the emergence of options such as ChatGPT.
In this scenario, young programmers should not be discouraged, because although the first six-year term of the year there was a drop in demand for tech talent, as recognized by Martin Borchardt, CEO of Henry, now the numbers are on the rise. Henry is trying to place, this month, about 250 graduates in different companies in the United States and other countries.