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I'd say good programmers are relatively underpaid in Western Europe compared to the rest of the globe.
by dep_b 10y ago
I'd say good programmers are relatively underpaid in Western Europe compared to the rest of the globe.
- alvarosevilla95 10y agoFor what I can tell, London has starting salaries in the £30-40k range which compared to the $60-100k in the valley seems absurd, specially as cost of living in London is not that much different.
- ido 10y agoYeah London is quite off the charts, similar developer wages to large German cities but at much higher CoL. I think this has to do with UK culturally not valuing engineers as much compared to Germany.
- dan_b 10y agoIt's a blue collar job in the UK, coupled with the out-dated concept that individual contributors cannot earn as much as managers.
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- slowmotiony 10y agoAbsolutely - if they work as regular employees. In Munich a senior dev can be offered around 100k. If he's single and without kids, the government will immediately take more than half of that. Then the apartment will set him back around 1000 euro a month. This leaves him with around 3000€/month. I can make that in less than a week as a contractor doing the same thing in literally the same place.
- dep_b 10y agoAnd that's Germany, a country that's relatively well paying for engineers (like Switzerland). If you're from The Netherlands forget about that salary.
- 7fff00 10y agoWe don't even pay nearly that much on our total income here in Denmark - this chart says Germans don't either https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Income_Tax_Germany_2010.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Income_T...
- slowmotiony 10y agoGoogle "brutto netto rechner" and calculate yourself. If you're single and childless half your money goes to tax and social stuff.
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