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Unfortunately, the pay in Spain is generally pretty low. If I'm not mistaken, the minimum wage is about 7.6 euros per hour. It's actually ~6.50 euros an hour,
by gorbypark 5y ago
Unfortunately, the pay in Spain is generally pretty low. If I'm not mistaken, the minimum wage is about 7.6 euros per hour. It's actually ~6.50 euros an hour, which is 1050/month, but they get paid 14 times per year (there's two "bonus" pay cheques per year). So if you are full time year around employee, minimum is 7.6 while a more casual worker could be 6.50. Getting 15-30 euro per hour is more than double minimum wage at the low end, and nearly four times the minimum at the high end, so it seems somewhat plausible. A senior software engineer would only be making about that much here (40-50k euros).
- pjmlp 5y agoEven junior grade engineering positions to be around the same. To get something close to 2000 euro, either get lucky at a company that actually values employees instead of calling them collaborators, or having a couple of years experience.
- mejutoco 5y agoJust adding that the bonus payment is not always 14. some companies default to this (or 13) for what feels like extra cash for xmas, but most companies nowadays just pay 12 times. If you are in one of the 14 payments one you can ask for 12 and, if I remember correctly when I did, they have to comply.
- gorbypark 5y agoAh, for some reason I thought the 14 pays was for everyone.
- woofie11 5y agoI actually think the take-home pay would be below minimum wage here. 15-30 isn't take-home. In most companies, you'd be down to 7.5-15 after basic overhead (taxes, insurance, etc.). Add material costs, time to spend running web site, doing interviews, rounding up clients, billing, vendor management, etc. and it's hard to see how this makes ends meet.
- gorbypark 5y agoYeah, take home is always lower. The 6.5-7.5 minimum is before taxes and all that other stuff, take home would be even lower.