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Don't know about the rest of the points, but I looked into several job opportunities at Berlin, and was shocked by how low their offered salaries were. That was
by reacharavindh 8y ago
Don't know about the rest of the points, but I looked into several job opportunities at Berlin, and was shocked by how low their offered salaries were. That was the end of my interest in looking for jobs at Berlin...
I live in Denmark currently, and can attest that to some extent, salaries cannot be compared because of different social structures & expenses. Getting paid 50% of what I used to make in the US did not mean standard of living went to 50%. But, for a comp.engineer, US wins out by a huge margin in terms of money.
- rurban 8y agoIt's not 50%, it's more like 30%. German salaries are totally anti-engineering and pro-management.
- distances 8y agoI think this applies to all of Europe though. London salaries are a bit higher, but of course not at the US levels.
- omnimus 8y agoUK and Germany are also the countries with highest salaries if you don't count Scandinavia. Try to go to Poland or Czechia thats german border countries where the salaries are even much lower. Then again salaries in europe just work in very different way.
- rurban 8y agoUK and Switzerland only. Germany is traditionally a low-wage country.
- Rinzler89 8y agoYou mean London and Switzerland. Excepting London, the UK on average is even more low wage than Germany, to reuse your expression. But London, just like Switzerland has an impossible property market if you want o buy something no matter how well you're paid.
- reacharavindh 8y agoWell, I was saying 50% referring to my current pay in Denmark, not that of Germany. In Germany, I was offered lower than in Denmark, which would have been, like you said - 30 ish %.
- Rinzler89 8y agoSure, salaries in Berlin are smaller then in the Scandinavian capitals but let's talk about the cost of living. Isn't beer like 8 euros in CPH vs 2-4 in BER? I'm not even going to open the real estate can of worms.
- maa5444 8y agoman DK has another level of social welfare ... I are comparing apples with bananas