For those reaching conclusions from the lack of replies: most Europeans are asleep at the time of posting.
Ask HN: Those in Europe making €100K+ annually, what is your job like?
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#12Any freelance technical expert That is not bullshitting.
Paris/Mostly Paris/Various positions doing mostly linux stuff/Usually relaxed.
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#13There is no one in Europe making €100K+ annually. Just kidding... at least I don't know anyone personally. But maybe the Head of R&D of the company I work for could be close to that mark, at least he's driving a Porsche. Yeah.. not useful I know, sorry.
> There is no one in Europe making €100K+ annually.
Are we talking Eurozone or Europe? I know programmers in Zurich making >= 130K Francs a year (which comes in at over €100K).
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#14MD at my last company earned 99,995 (although gbp), so I doubt many people who read HN in a salaried career are earning more than 100k EUR.
Generally, Europeans don't have such high salaries.
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#15Do contractors count?
£400-£500 gross per day is not that big of "achievement" here in London.
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#16For those reaching conclusions from the lack of replies: most Europeans are asleep at the time of posting.
we're busy paying for welfare state
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#17Define 100k+...
Is it what you get on your account in one year ? Is it what you keeps after paying your taxes and your insurances ? Or is it the global value your employer is paying for you ?
I assume you ask for the first one, yet the more representative one is probably the latter.
Re: Ask HN: Those in Europe making €100K+ annually, what is your job like?
#18There is no one in Europe making €100K+ annually. Just kidding... at least I don't know anyone personally. But maybe the Head of R&D of the company I work for could be close to that mark, at least he's driving a Porsche. Yeah.. not useful I know, sorry.
> There is no one in Europe making €100K+ annually. Are we talking Eurozone or Europe? I know programmers in Zurich making >= 130K Francs a year (which comes in at over €100K).
Or >= 300k CHF, but it's 1am in Zurich. Or similarly large amounts in GBP if you don't limit yourself to the continent.
I know at least one American unicorn will pay far more than €100k in cash to new graduates in London.
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#19Re: Ask HN: Those in Europe making €100K+ annually, what is your job like?
#20Good contract developers (freelancers) in London earn around £450/£500 a day which is clear of 100k euro by quite a margin. Job depends on the client. Job could last
3 months, could last 3 years.
Unusual for a salaried permanent developer to earn that amount in London unless they were head of or near the top of a good dev team in a good firm.
This is all excluding finance jobs. Finance jobs its pretty easy to get to that salary in London.