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Are software salaries even lower in Portugal? Or is it that there are simply no companies/jobs/growth? (also - doesnt the German weather get u down?)

• pjmlp 5y ago
  You will be getting around 1000 euros netto straight out of university, with 14 month pay (christmas + summer packages). If you happen to do consulting to the major groups (telecommunications, banking, insurances, international brands like OutSytems,...) your salary will top around 2000 netto, unless you move into management. Those values are per month, and any fellow countryman/woman can gladly correct me for more up to date values. And that is when one was lucky to take an university degree and land a job on the degree's area, the minimum wage should be around 400 euros nowadays. Also you will also have the typical southern Europe culture that things get done when they are done, and in some sweatshops working conditions can be quite bad, and since not everyone can live on the main cities, sometimes that is the only software job in the area, so better not push it. Yes the weather isn't the best, however in northern Portugal we do happen to have a similar weather, and without central heating (unless you happen to live in very recent buildings from the last 20 years), otherwise common heaters and fireplace. Also the German region where I happen to live can have nice Summers as well.