r/cscareerquestionsEU • u/kluvin Vebb Develipør | 🇳🇴 • Dec 15 '19
[OFFICIAL] Salary Sharing thread :: December, 2019
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This thread is for sharing recent offers you have gotten. Please only post an offer if you're including hard numbers, but feel free to use a throwaway account if you're concerned about anonymity. You can also genericize some of your answers (e.g. "Top 20 CS school").
- Education:
- Prior Experience:
- Company/Industry:
- Title:
- Country:
- Duration:
- Salary:
- Total compensation:
- Relocation/Signing Bonus:
- Stock and/or recurring bonuses:
Note that while the primary purpose of these threads is obviously to share compensation info, discussion is also encouraged.
High CoL: Scandinavia, Finland, Iceland, France, UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Italy
Low CoL: Spain, Portugal, Poland, Russia, Belarus, Slovenia, Hungary, Greece
Cost of Living (CoL) data is fetched from Numbeo. If your country is not listed, find your country there, and post in High if your CoL index is greater than 60. Otherwise low.
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u/CyrillicMan Software Engineer | Ukraine Dec 30 '19
That's actually a mystery to me. Salaries in Greece/Italy/Portugal seem to be at least the same or lower after tax than here, despite considerably higher standard of living (and not by that much, but still considerably higher cost of living).
My only explanation to this is that's because 1. our taxes are basically negligible in this industry (5% plus small social insurance fee) because everybody works as a contractor (saving a lot of benefits for the employer) and 2. the financial disparity between IT (a profession with working English language) attracts a lot of talent in the industry here while you can basically realise yourself in EU countries without the overhead of dealing with international clients.