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What are examples?

DasIch 12y ago
For rents? There is a map available here: http://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/mietkarte-berlin/#2-1650 http://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/mietkarte-berlin/#2-1650 It's in German but it should be still fairly easy to understand. Basically average rent for a 72m^2 two bedroom apartment with a new constract is somewhere between 815€ and 1100€ within the SBahn ring. If you are willing to share an apartment (which students generally do in Germany), you can usually get by with 300-400€ per month for rent.
probably_wrong 12y ago
If you mean examples about rent prices, a 1-room apartment in Charlottenburg (nice location) costs around €600. Similar apartment in Wedding (a bit further north) is around €500. For reference, a regular programming job should be around €1500 per month after taxes, while a month worth of supermarket food costs around €250 (although the right habits can shave almost a hundred from that). Add another €100 for a month of unlimited public transport, and you are set.
- iagooar 12y ago
  If you get 1500€ after taxes, you are being hugely underpaid. 2000€ should be the very least you should expect / demand.
- uberwach 12y ago
  1500€/month after taxes sounds very low. That is like 27k yearly before taxes (Steuerklasse 1 / no church taxes). Eastern europeans get paid that, because you can lowball them so easily. But as far as I know 40k is a lower bound for cs graduates. For reference I got 56.5k/year base salary at my first job after graduation (small company) and that were 2770€/month after taxes. I even have two friends that earn more than I do. Quit that one after half a year though (russian offshore programmers communication hell). Your rent/food prices are correct though. Small hack: your employer can pay you 44€/month tax-free for the public transport ticket (geldwerter Vorteil Freibetrag).
- mlent 12y ago
  I'm going to third that. 1500 is definitely very low for a monthly salary as a software developer. A one bedroom in a nice part of Berlin is already more than half of that.

What are examples?

For rents? There is a map available here: http://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/mietkarte-berlin/#2-1650 http://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/mietkarte-berlin/#2-1650 It's in German but it should be still fairly easy to understand. Basically average rent for a 72m^2 two bedroom apartment with a new constract is somewhere between 815€ and 1100€ within the SBahn ring. If you are willing to share an apartment (which students generally do in Germany), you can usually get by with 300-400€ per month for rent.

probably_wrong 12y ago

If you mean examples about rent prices, a 1-room apartment in Charlottenburg (nice location) costs around €600. Similar apartment in Wedding (a bit further north) is around €500. For reference, a regular programming job should be around €1500 per month after taxes, while a month worth of supermarket food costs around €250 (although the right habits can shave almost a hundred from that). Add another €100 for a month of unlimited public transport, and you are set.

iagooar 12y ago
If you get 1500€ after taxes, you are being hugely underpaid. 2000€ should be the very least you should expect / demand.
uberwach 12y ago
1500€/month after taxes sounds very low. That is like 27k yearly before taxes (Steuerklasse 1 / no church taxes). Eastern europeans get paid that, because you can lowball them so easily. But as far as I know 40k is a lower bound for cs graduates. For reference I got 56.5k/year base salary at my first job after graduation (small company) and that were 2770€/month after taxes. I even have two friends that earn more than I do. Quit that one after half a year though (russian offshore programmers communication hell). Your rent/food prices are correct though. Small hack: your employer can pay you 44€/month tax-free for the public transport ticket (geldwerter Vorteil Freibetrag).
mlent 12y ago
I'm going to third that. 1500 is definitely very low for a monthly salary as a software developer. A one bedroom in a nice part of Berlin is already more than half of that.