I wouldn't call it insanely high, given that my baseline is tech jobs. As a freelancer, you make around 800-1000$ a day working for bigger German companies, an

I wouldn't call it insanely high, given that my baseline is tech jobs. As a freelancer, you make around 800-1000$ a day working for bigger German companies, and the bar to become one is not very high from my experience on both sides of the table. For internal employees the ceiling is at around 120k for senior engineers, above that you need to go into middle management territory or be an EM equivalent.