Beyond Spotify and iZettle: How Sweden became Europe’s capital of startup exits

Re:Beyond Spotify and iZettle: How Sweden became Europe’s ca... by ed_balls on Saturday September 08, 2018 @09:50AM (#17940795)

You have to normalise by purchasing power and take the quality of life into account. My 60k salary in Poland gives me similar quality of life like 100k in Denmark and 140k in SF.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Beyond Spotify and iZettle: How Sweden became Europe’s ca... by krakatau1 on Sunday September 09, 2018 @05:16PM (#17947832)

Yes, that's another abnormal labor market. I'm from Croatia, but I've seen similar things with colleagues from eastern and central Europe.

IT salaries here are much better than western Europe compared to other professions and it's not worth migrating.

I've interviewed for jobs in Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and Germany and the highest offer was 75k € for job in Brussels region.

According to online calculators thats 40k take home salary with housing and services at least twice as expensive. My 50k € Croatian salary leaves me with 33k net with vastly better quality of life.

Why are western Europe's developers paid so little while living in much richer countries?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Beyond Spotify and iZettle: How Sweden became Europe’s ca... by eafkuor on Saturday September 08, 2018 @10:00AM (#17940826)

Wait, you have a 60k USD salary in Poland? Where do you work, what do you do? I'm on 40k and I already feel like this is better than 100k in Denmark, considering their higher taxes and insane cost of living

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Beyond Spotify and iZettle: How Sweden became Europe’s ca... by TulliusCicero on Saturday September 08, 2018 @10:13AM (#17940896)

60k is high for a Polish software developer, 140k is probably below the median for SF.

[ Parent | on HN ]