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The German dev gets paid 25% of the US dev salary though.
by quickthrower2 8y ago
The German dev gets paid 25% of the US dev salary though.
- singularity2001 8y agoAnd of that 50% are grabbed by the taxman.
- yitchelle 8y agoBut the service you get from German government is so much better, healthcare is a good example here.
- chopin 8y agoThat's paid on top of tax. Otherwise, I agree.
- singularity2001 8y agoSelf employed consultants are pushed into private healthcare, which will ruin you when you retire (you have to keep paying >>$1000 per month until you die).
- lovich 8y agoThe tax rate in the US gets pretty close to 50% when all the municipalities take their cut. If you're in Silicon Valley, most devs are going to be paying a 41%-44% tax rate just from federal and California income tax. Then you've got any local taxes, land taxes, etc that add onto that
- BozeWolf 8y agoTime to turn this the other way around: compared to the rest of the world, american developers (can) get an insane salary.
- cabraca 8y ago+ pension + healthcare + mandatory 20 vacation days + max. 48h workweeks + mandatory 30 days notice period + better social security net and i dont need a gofundme page in case someone in my family gets cancer ...
- infocollector 8y agoYou forgot +$400,000 per kid for university education - not to mention public school quality.
- jjeaff 8y agoOnly the most expensive private universities would cost that much.
- hef19898 8y agoAin't that 24 days, 2 days per month) plus public holidays? just wondering. Confirming the rest.
- cabraca 8y ago24 days if you work 6 days/week + holidays 20 days if you work 5 days/week + holidays 16 days if you work 4 days/week + holidays
- hef19898 8y agoAh, thanks for the clarification. thank god most employers go above the bare legal minimum, I never had anything less than 28 days. Once I even had the luck of being under a "naked" payment contract: 35 hour work week, unlimited overtime to be taken of whenever it was possible, 30 days of vacation and 12 weeks of continued pay in case of sickness (6 more weeks than mandatory). Ah, I miss these days...
- quickthrower2 8y agoYou are kind of making my point: comparing working in 2 countries has a lot of factors. Non compete might be a minor thing to a lot of people. Disclosure I neither live or work in the US or Germany.