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Actually salaries have increased significantly in the past 2 years. A senior dev can easily learn up to 120-130K pa. If thats enough to buy you the lifestyle o
by mmarq 4y ago
Actually salaries have increased significantly in the past 2 years. A senior dev can easily learn up to 120-130K pa.
If thats enough to buy you the lifestyle of an office worker in Berlin or Rome, I don’t know. The real issue is cost of property and childcare, especially if you have a child, because you can’t live in a cramped 60sqm apartment nor you can spend 4 hours a day commuting. You can easily end up spending 6K a month just to put a roof over your head and send you child to nursery. 6K per month is ~120K gross.
- denvrede 4y agoIn Berlin you get nowhere near the 120-130k as a senior dev, at least not on average. There may be some (very rare) exceptions.
- mmarq 4y agoI wasn’t referring to the gross salary, but to the lifestyle you get from it. Living in a 80-90sqm flat without carpet or broken stuff, in an area where you have bars and cafes and restaurants and a decent school, plus sending a child to nursery, doesn’t seem unattainable in Germany (at least my German friends say so). In London that’s luxury.