I won't say it's an 'average' salary in nl, but if you have 10+ years experience in something not-trivial, you need to push harder if you're not getting paid this. Sure, nobody's advertising these rates, but as so many things financial in the Netherlands, things are not what they seem at the surface...

> if you have 10+ years experience in something not-trivial

Yeah that sounds an awful lot like having critical knowledge. But 72k is not what an "average developer" would earn in The Netherlands, not even the average senior developer (I'd say something around 4000 per month?).

> you need to push harder if you're not getting paid this

Preaching to the choir here ;)

But maybe that's why we never heard about big software companies from Vienna then? If they have to pay average mid-career programmers 72k? ;)

Well, it's Vienna (although those amounts seem high to me), where the cost of living is higher, but Bratislava is well within commuting distance -- both by car and train -- enabling a decent opportunity to live and have daily expenses in a cheaper country while earning in one that pays better.

I thought I saw some people from booking.com saying they get that in Netherlands.

average salary != average developer. What I had in mind is that if developer plan his career right you can get those salaries in quite a lot of places without requiring being genius.