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Re:Ask HN: Why there is a labour shortage in Germany? by iExploder on Sunday September 03, 2023 @02:04PM (#37372622)
salaries for tech workers are a joke in DE/AT when accounted for cost of living, taxes and what other professionals are making. the incentives do not match the work put in, hence why they can't find people and are in constant state of "wonder".

what seems to be the way to go is people ladder hopping every 2 years to make it to a managerial level, because when you not a manager you are nothing in Germany salary wise. the tech worker career track simply does not exist.

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Re:Ask HN: Why there is a labour shortage in Germany? by donnie12345 on Sunday September 03, 2023 @02:15PM (#37372744)
Real wages everywhere are stagnant.

Higher salaries are eroded by high cost of living and higher taxes

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Re:Ask HN: Why there is a labour shortage in Germany? by alemanek on Sunday September 03, 2023 @03:55PM (#37373824)
Problem for that region isn’t that wages aren’t growing. The issue is that they are very low to begin with. France for instance pays senior engineers much better. Poland pays better when adjusting for cost of living. Germany is on average not competitive even within its own region.
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Re:Ask HN: Why there is a labour shortage in Germany? by PartiallyTyped on Sunday September 03, 2023 @04:33PM (#37374245)
A junior at AWS in Poland makes more than the 45k listed above.
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Re:Ask HN: Why there is a labour shortage in Germany? by alemanek on Monday September 04, 2023 @09:34PM (#37386897)
Not surprising but even outside of FAANG companies in Europe you can get a much better deal in another country
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