Yes, that's why I wrote 1 year and not 3 months :) That's still not that huge a portion of a typical ~40 years career (unless you have a lot of children - I th

Yes, that's why I wrote 1 year and not 3 months :) That's still not that huge a portion of a typical ~40 years career (unless you have a lot of children - I think the average for western Europe is somewhere between 1 and 2 kids) and you'd get parental leave payments during that time. So sure it probably hurts your combined income but I think it's very rarely a 50% reduction as suggested by OP saying he needs to double his salary to stay at the same level.