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Are you sure that southern workers retires at 60? I don't think so ...

Actually there's a lot of "did three months course and now I am a ninja programmer!" candidates. So those interview processes are designed to understand if you belong to that categ…

I think actually it's #2 because companies in italy must pay additional taxes over the RAL (RAL - Reddito Annuale Lordo / Yearly Gross Income). Those taxes are for TFR and other we…

Yes, you are right (Thank you for the link). As i was saying, salary is a strange combination of opportunity cost and perceived value. And it's always difficult to understand if th…

I don't know about Verona and Ferrara but i can confirm that IT work (in northern Italy) is mainly in Milan. But to live in Milan is quite expensive. You can also check job offers …

Is that your personal experience? I read almost only negative opinions about Upwork, and it's seems another broken solution looking for a problem to solve.

Sorry i didn't say that all those figures are Before Taxes. I live in northen italy in a place where living is not too much expensive.

Care to explain why you would like to have "anonymous" accounts? I'm also from Italy and I know that for us, as italians, salary is a taboo that must be overcome. In which position…

Here in Italy we discuss #2 - For example for an annual income of 30.000€ before taxes, it will be around 1.400 - 1.500€ month after taxes. And I had the same experience: it's almo…

This is certainly an intresting post and i likethe OP attitude. We should be totally transparent about our compensation as he did. Salary is just the result of a negotiation, nothi…