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Just adding some numbers for reference: I'm a Swedish developer, senior, and with over 5 years logged with my current employer. I earn €52000 per year before ta

• stevekemp 6y ago
  About the same here in Finland. Getting 50k, is easy whether you have 5 years experience or 20 years. Getting 60-70k isn't impossible if you haggle and have a good niche, but gaining more as a sysadmin/developer is hard short of going down the self-employed/contractor route which is a headache of its own. Of course you don't need that much money to have excellent quality of life; paying €100/month for full-time daycare, having 5ish weeks of paid leave, good transport, good libraries, good social services, and similar means that if I had more money I wouldn't know what to do with it!
• brtkdotse 6y ago
  Same, but a contractor since a few years back. Similar numbers, only I work 25-30 hour weeks and usually take 8 weeks off. Also, my M.Sc. degree, my kids daycare/after school and a relative's cancer treatment were/are all "free". Especially the last part, not having to worry about the wellbeing of loved ones is probably the strongest motivator for being a proponent of our system.