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100k for a 2-year experience php dev? Can anyone corroborate that claim?

• Xylakant 14y ago
  Possible, he might be a very bright and promising kid. Average: certainly not. I regard this as statistical outlier. I'd offer 50-60k max for a 2 years php dev. We do have a large influx of people from Spain and Greece lately - they're legally allowed to work here without any visa and the unemployment rate drives them here. However, if those numbers are cited it's difficult to know which side you're hearing. An employer in germany has to pay health care and social security etc., which adds another ~40% on top of the wage - so they might have cited that number to compensate for differences in the american model (private healthcare paid by the employee).
  • tayl0r 14y ago
    Senior level software engineer here- I just relocated to Berlin from SF and I'm not seeing it. I've also talked to a lot of other programmers / employers of programmers here and no one has ever spoken of salaries that high. If these salaries were real, I would not be trying to do side-projects full time from home!
    • FlyingSnake 14y ago
      Care to share what range are the salaries are in?
      • Xylakant 14y ago
        From what I hear I'd place the average for a solid experienced dev at around 40k-60k Euro per year with a pretty wide spread [1]. It's hard to tell though, I might be living in a bubble :) [1] 3+ years, at least one larger scale project. Knowledge of more than 1 programming language
      • tayl0r 14y ago
        Other comments in the thread seem to fit what I'm seeing in job postings and from word of mouth. 50-60k EUR gross, maybe you can do better, maybe not. I could be totally wrong though, as the poster above me just said 40k. If you want to make a ton of money as a programmer, the US is still where it's at IMO.