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It's not high for an engineer in France. I'm in the 20% bracket (alone, no kid to push me down a level) and i live on the coast (between Bayonne and La Rochelle
by orwin 5y ago
It's not high for an engineer in France. I'm in the 20% bracket (alone, no kid to push me down a level) and i live on the coast (between Bayonne and La Rochelle basically, but i intend to move to portugal next winter, Bayonne is too cold), so i do not have a "I live in Paris bonus".
Your TJM (average daily rate for you english guys) should be at worst at 400€ if you just started (mine is 700 and i'm nota particulary qualified devops tbh). That's like 50€/hour before employer taxes (roughly 30%, so 15€). Your employer have other charges so i guess they can take 5€, it still leave you with 30€/hour which should be the standard for engineer i guess? That's roughly 4k/month-50k/year. A freelance can easely make his 80k in like ten month and take two month of vacation btw (for you not in France: we can't earn more than 80k/year in freelance, you have to start a LLC if you are above that). If you are a painter or i guess any freelance who do not only sell services, but also parts, it is 120k)
- otagekki 5y agoNot so long ago I learned that my contracting company's been billing my presence €800 day to my client (or €100-125/h), as I was looking for further explanations on a "you cost too much" remark that I've got. (for non-French people here, IT contracting companies are very secretive about their TJMs especially to their employees) Thing is my take-home is nowhere close to that. And to negociate for a regular increase is almost a herculean task. I got one after long talks and it just got eaten up by inflation. I think we all need a wake-up call here in France to stop being exploited. One thing for sure is that if I ever go back to do IT contracting in France it's to work as freelance or at least do a "portage salarial"