enris

In Finland, we actually have some shortage of skilled employees, especially in construction but also in tech. Even Microsoft and couple of other companies started a project to post educate 1000 applied science graduates and agreed to offer jobs for them.

In tech, entry level salaries are about $37-50k, senior positions from $55k>. Country average salary is about 37k. Of course that isn't the whole story. Cost of living is and taxation is very high. Just recently there was a article stating that apartment in Helsinki is more expensive than apartment from Manhattan.

It's the same here in Finland. There are lots of different organizations, programs and places to get help(I bet goverment funded), but actually they should just make the process more simpler.