In most countries and companies of the world programmers are not paid any bonuses, and even less so RSUs. It's mostly just a base salary. And yes, the differen

In most countries and companies of the world programmers are not paid any bonuses, and even less so RSUs. It's mostly just a base salary. And yes, the differences might be normal. In germany it's even less. One might get around 50k€ fresh from university. But there will be far less than 1% of roles which offer a compensation of >= 100k. At least in engineering, management is different.