Do companies pay something on top of this like pension scheme or medical insurance? If not, that feels really low even for juniors.

So the result is a percentage of your wages end up in this occupational pension that gets added to the public pension when you retire. But because our elderly are getting older, the age at which you can retire is getting pushed up and up.

The numbers look slightly better than what they're in France factoring in CoL, but that's probably more telling about our housing situation than about tech salaries.

Other than that you can deduct things like your mortgage, and you can put more money into your pension investments, and a range of other things.

Most of these are methods that a lot of people don’t know about, mainly because they are financial tricks that nobody teaches you about.

You have to understand, however, that a lot of us Danes are quite happy with our high taxes because it pays for everything. I have ADHD for example, and though I don’t need it, my Elvanse medicine cost me around 80kr because the state pays the other 2400kr. We’re of course not always happy with how the politicians handle our taxes, especially these days where they seem increasingly unable to meet citizens need, leading to many smaller towns setting up communities to run things like schools because the public schools are closing. But over all, I think that even though we have 13 different political parties were basically mainly different branches of social democrats.

You can, however, put it in your pension and that's how most do it but I'm of the opinion that waiting until I'm at death's door to enjoy the good life is a waste of a good life.