A couple observations: While €20k is certainly a low salary for a software engineer (even in Berlin), it's not completely unheard of. I've seen a couple startu

A couple observations: While €20k is certainly a low salary for a software engineer (even in Berlin), it's not completely unheard of. I've seen a couple startups offering €1500/month for entry-level dev jobs, and actually, €1500 gross is enough to live on here. Then there are the so-called "mini jobs", which only pay €400/month or so, but those are usually student jobs or unskilled labor. You probably won't find any real dev jobs at that level—especially not full-time positions. Also, it's pretty common here for people to discuss salaries in monthly terms (my German employment contract is one example), whereas in the US it's more common to talk about annual salaries. I didn't consider that when I created this poll, so it's possible some people were accidentally responding for the wrong time frame. I've added "annual" to the description to clarify. And finally, it's entirely possible those are just junk responses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5537023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5537023