100k is the upper (upper-upper but still) end of the IG Metal collectively bargained frame contract for the metal and electronics industry in Bavaria. As soon a

100k is the upper (upper-upper but still) end of the IG Metal collectively bargained frame contract for the metal and electronics industry in Bavaria. As soon as you lead a department, you make more. Leading a department as in you are not the hierachical equivalent of a senior manager in a US company, rather somewhere at Level 6 at a plave like Amazon. Directors and VP make considerably more. So 100k salaries are totally a thing in Germany for white collar employees.