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I would say salaries are good, comparing salaries and cost of living (comparing to London or Paris for example). I also heard contrary statements to yours rega
by toumhi 16y ago
I would say salaries are good, comparing salaries and cost of living (comparing to London or Paris for example).
I also heard contrary statements to yours regarding venture capital (may not be at the level of the US though).
And, there are a bunch of technology companies (TomTom, booking.com, Hyves...).
Companies seem to have a hard time hiring locals though, and there are quite a lot of foreigners working in IT. So that seems to corroborate your point about Dutch going abroad (or maybe simply not interested in software)
- winfred 16y agoSalaries are low in the Netherlands for IT people. I'm a Windows admin and also moved and went from pretax 34K euros in Amsterdam to $110K in California in 2006.Then add on top of that a sales tax and an income tax that are each roughly 10% lower in the US. Even if you compensate for lower benefits, cost of living differences and a possible increase of my value due to additional skills learned, there is a massive difference. I practically went from rags to riches just by moving (and also went from about 8 weeks vacation a year to... nothing :).
- toumhi 16y agoSure, salaries are much higher in US, even more so in California. :-) But, by european standards, it's pretty good. London and Paris are more expensive cities and salaries are lower (except maybe in finance). I went from 31K in Toulouse (France) to 45K in Amsterdam 3 months later :-) Not really rags to riches but still a very nice increase, even adjusting to the higher cost of living.