If you pay average salary you get average work (or below). Good programmers in Germany do not work for €50.000. I'm based in Iceland and do contract work for G

If you pay average salary you get average work (or below). Good programmers in Germany do not work for €50.000. I'm based in Iceland and do contract work for German companies, and I assure you none of the people I work with are even close to €50.000. Perhaps because they're not average but good. Here in Iceland €50.000 might possibly get you a recent graduate. Myself, I wouldn't hire a programmer at that low pay though, graduate or not. A couple of my friends (good programmers, not "average") who have moved to Sweden and Denmark get similar salaries to what they got up here in Iceland. Higher salary gets you talented people.