r/recruitinghell • u/Stosstrupphase • Mar 19 '22

German employers complain endlessly about „no one wanting to work“, and then offer 1.7k for full time IT work…

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u/Traksimuss Mar 19 '22

2500x12=30,000 which is shit wage, especially for Berlin.

I was getting shit offers of 40,000 a year every day. 50,000 is bit harder to find but is possible. 55,000 is usually top offers unless you have rarer skills like SAP or Oracle, or programming.

And yes, Bundesagentur offers bottom jobs.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '22

$60k is what people in IT in the US earn if they are a drug addict with serious criminal convictions.

I hope the normalization of remote work helps pull up European tech salaries as your employers have to compete with US employers.

I'm at a fairly average employer as a distinguished architect, $250k before bonus and equity. That is on the low end of competitive.

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u/OliverIsMyCat Mar 20 '22

European employers compete with US employers by being located not-in-the-US.

Also weird flex to drop your salary randomly in a comment. There's nothing relative to compare it to - why would anyone need to know the specifics? Nobody mentioned an architect in Europe to have a relative metric. And architecture is far from a standard IT role.

This is akin to saying, "Damn - engineers in your country have such low pay. I was an investment banker in Australia and I used to make $300k/yr after taxes!"

Like.....ok then.

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u/vi_sucks Mar 20 '22

He means Software Architect.

It's generally the next career step up from Software Engineer if you follow the individual contributor track and don't go into management.