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Work remotely for silicon valley companies.
The time you consider the tax implications you’ve got to be on a very good US wage to break the 100k level.
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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.
You can pretty much just come to Switzerland and work if you are an EU citizen, so might as well be. Zurich has probably the best ratio of earning potential to COL in the world (for the average person, not necessarily for software engineers). If you are cheap/thrifty you can even go do your shopping in a neighboring country, since Switzerland is so small.
Migrate to Switzerland :) Salaries there are much higher than rest of the Europe but living there is more expensive too.
I know banking offers that kind of salary, in the Netherlands. But it's the higher tier of the bucket though.
One piece of advice though: Don't do it for the money (or the money alone, at least). If you want to run a sustainable consulting practice you have to be passionate about what you're doing and constantly deliver high-quality work.
Confidently marketing your services is essential. If you're good at solving important problems for your customers that should be reflected in your rates. Speaking of which, if possible adopt value-based pricing instead of time-based, i.e. daily or hourly, rates.
I know banking offers that kind of salary, in the Netherlands. But it's the higher tier of the bucket though.
ING/ABN? What kind of roles though? Sr/lead/principal or management role?
Plenty of contracting roles paying £500-600/day in London, a few even up to £800 (and 'Head of'/CTO level consulting gigs hovering around £1k/day although very rare as most of those positions are perm). I know some rather mediocre developers on £550 day rates. For perm positions, such roles aren't too uncommon for senior/lead level devs in finance, tech consultancy (doing SAP/Salesforce work at some place like Accent…
$500 a day programming?
Sorry mate, but if you'd like some good advice from this crowd, you should spend more than 20 seconds to describe your issue and the type of suggestions you are looking for. That's probably lesson #1 in how to get to a 100k salary :) You don't mention: where you are located; what current job you have; what's DS; what kind of dev work have you done. Also, any github / stack overflow link, so that we can get a better s…