Not sure about a salary, but contracting can comfortably let you earn that based on a daily rate. I've even seen Qlikview or Excel roles at banks in the UK that pay 600+ per day! The trick is to have a niche - look at what's hot in contracting job ads and read up about it. Get confident with the tech/software they ask for and go for a few interviews. Getting a contracting role is generally a lot easier than a permanent position, and in my experience, a contracting job can be just as secure as a perm job.
How to break into 100k+ Euro salary in EU/EEA?
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#12That level of salary... well I'd say you gotta sell your soul and head off into banking or into a role as consultant somewhere, but no way for ordinary devs, even in Germany. For what it's worth I know directors of 300+ employee companies that don't crack the 100k. Alternatively try to land a remote job for some Valley-based or other VC backed company, but beware of the tax and legal implications of doing so.
Google pays 120k+ for junior developers in Switzerland.
Re: How to break into 100k+ Euro salary in EU/EEA?
#13That level of salary... well I'd say you gotta sell your soul and head off into banking or into a role as consultant somewhere, but no way for ordinary devs, even in Germany. For what it's worth I know directors of 300+ employee companies that don't crack the 100k. Alternatively try to land a remote job for some Valley-based or other VC backed company, but beware of the tax and legal implications of doing so.
Google pays 120k+ for junior developers in Switzerland.
Switzerland is not in the EU as OP asked, also you spend a large chunk of the gains over Germany on higher living cost (rent, but also basic stuff like cheeseburgers is up to 3x the price of Germany). Oh and they have both a strict immigration regime as well as a huge right-wing problem, which might be another factor against moving to Switzerland for work.
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#14You've asked how you can get 100k EUR per year. But you have not mentioned anything about the value you can offer for this money (unless DS means something there, I have no idea what DS is).
In many companies, low-level managers don't earn that much (especially green ones, which it sounds like you would be during the time frame you specified). Companies wouldn't want to distract all their employees by offering a huge pay bump just to switch fields.
When you ask for money you should first talk about what you can contribute. Which is?
Re: How to break into 100k+ Euro salary in EU/EEA?
#15Not sure about a salary, but contracting can comfortably let you earn that based on a daily rate. I've even seen Qlikview or Excel roles at banks in the UK that pay 600+ per day! The trick is to have a niche - look at what's hot in contracting job ads and read up about it. Get confident with the tech/software they ask for and go for a few interviews. Getting a contracting role is generally a lot easier than a permane…
Problem with contracting jobs is, depending on OPs country, they can be risky: health care costs can kill you at that salary rate (eg in Germany with its dual class health care system), contractors may not be eligible for ordinary pensions (and you might be tempted to skip over saving for retirement...) and when you're sick for more than a week (or, can't find a new project soon enough) it can burn through your entire savings sooner than you'd like.
I wouldn't do contracting again without serious money (aka F-U-Money levels, or a full year worth of expenses) in the bank.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google pays 120k+ for junior developers in Switzerland.
Switzerland is not in the EU as OP asked, also you spend a large chunk of the gains over Germany on higher living cost (rent, but also basic stuff like cheeseburgers is up to 3x the price of Germany). Oh and they have both a strict immigration regime as well as a huge right-wing problem, which might be another factor against moving to Switzerland for work.
haha. very well informed..
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#17I know several engineers making over 100k in the EU. You just have to be really good at what you do and pick a company which pays well.
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#18So what makes you feel you deserve to earn more than 99.93% of the world's population?
You can make more than 90 percent of the worlds population by virtue of being born in the right place. ‘Deserve’ doesn’t have anything to do with it. Where I live, someone making 100k as a software engineer is being underpaid.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Switzerland is not in the EU as OP asked, also you spend a large chunk of the gains over Germany on higher living cost (rent, but also basic stuff like cheeseburgers is up to 3x the price of Germany). Oh and they have both a strict immigration regime as well as a huge right-wing problem, which might be another factor against moving to Switzerland for work.
haha. very well informed..
used to date a girl whose father worked during the week in CH and was home at the weekends ;)
Re: How to break into 100k+ Euro salary in EU/EEA?
#20So what makes you feel you deserve to earn more than 99.93% of the world's population?
1) Theses stats are false and quantifying wealth is crazy difficult 2) It's not about deserving but about /convincing/ someone to exchange your labour for this amount of money
Quantifying wealth is especially difficult when you confuse it with income.