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Another datapoint for perspective, from the Czech Republic (also an EU country): * PhD stipend: €3.3k / year (untaxed) * median CZ salary: €13k / year, €11k a
by Radim 8y ago
Another datapoint for perspective, from the Czech Republic (also an EU country):
* PhD stipend: €3.3k / year (untaxed)
* median CZ salary: €13k / year, €11k after taxes
* data scientist: €30k / year, €22k after taxes (royalty! although still below a doctorate student in Germany, apparently)
- laingc 8y ago€30k buys you a hell of a lot more in the Czech Republic than in Hamburg or Munich.
- Radim 8y agoOr in some cases, a hell of a lot less :-) Little known fact: people from CZ routinely travel to Germany for shopping. It's not just for the cheaper prices (electronics, drugstore), but even where the prices are comparable, for the much higher quality of products (dairy, food). The most expensive country I've lived in was Romania, where the salaries are even lower than CZ. This trend of higher salaries => cheaper and better goods is rather counter-intuitive (though services are cheaper, to be fair).
- trumpeta 8y agoConsumer goods are about the same between CZ and DE, I think what OP meant is things like housing or healthcare, that is much cheaper in CZ.
- allendoerfer 8y agoThis is because of cheap German supermarkets (Aldi, Lidl) with ruthless efficiency dictating prices for the German market.
- rjsw 8y agoThere is also the issue that food manufacturers have been selling products with different ingredients but the same packaging in Eastern Europe compared to the ones they sell in Western Europe.
- eeZah7Ux 8y agoIt might be counter-intuitive but, on the contrary, high salaries and cheap goods are effects of economic power. Contrast it with powerless people that have low income and pay relatively high prices for basic goods or rent: the stereotypical coal miner from 1800, people in prison, poor people in some western countries...