This gels with my experience of compensation here, but just to add another data point: when earning €70k & being functionally the sole breadwinner of a family o

This gels with my experience of compensation here, but just to add another data point: when earning €70k & being functionally the sole breadwinner of a family of 4 I managed to save almost 40% of my net pay while not trying to live particularly frugally. Despite recent price hikes Berlin remains a remarkably inexpensive western major-city.