What Is Considered A GOOD SALARY In Germany?

If you ask 10 different people

what

a

good

salary

is in Germany, you will most likely get 10 different answers, because this is a very subjective question and the answer depends greatly on your lifestyle, your age and where you live. do you live. In this video, we will go all out. The best thing is to try to answer the question: how much money do you really need in your bank account or as a

salary

to be able to live in Germany? Hello, my name is Jen and I'm from Guatemala and mine is Ivonne and I'm German and together we're from simple

germany

, where we create content in English to help internationals adapt to life in Germany more smoothly.

In addition to this YouTube channel, we also run our website simplejourney.com, where we have written detailed guides on topics we don't know about. cover on youtube and that will also help you establish yourself in Germany, so check them out in 2020. I must emphasize that the annual salary of grass was 47,700 euros per year on average very

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, which is approximately estimated at 3,975 euros per month still gross. still on average to put that in perspective because an average that you know it is doesn't really say much, but one third of the people who work in Germany earn above that average and two thirds earn below that average, a very important thing you need. learn from the beginning is the gross annual salary, so weed refers to the amount of money you will earn before social contributions or taxes are taken out of your salary, can you explain that a little more?

Yes, of course, I'm serious. is a very individual example, but it is only a rough example of your gross salary, so anything you negotiate that is in your contract and in your salary will have taken away your salary tax or your income tax, as well as four different social contributions, and that is your health insurance, that is, care insurance, that is, pension insurance and unemployment insurance, that money will never see your bank account and it depends on how much you earn, but around 40 you can distract yourself, yes, and that is very important. Note that you will never actually see this money when you receive your first pay stub, you will see the amount of grass you received for the month minus many of these subtractions and then at the bottom you will see how much net you will receive.

We have a full Video explaining the pay stub and how contributions work, which you can check out there to get an idea of ​​how much you have left of your salary. Once you have a salary or receive an offer, you can use this calculator that we offer. linked below in the description of our moment is in English and calculates gross to net salary depending on your individual circumstances. The number we have mentioned is an average for all of Germany, which is a bit unfair because there are very expensive cities and you could say that it is very similar to budget cities, so your salary really depends on many different factors, some of the most important ones are actually location, work experience or years of experience, education, company size, and unfortunately also gender.

That's true, yes, to give you an even better understanding, let's compare some of the favorite cities of internationals in Germany and follow the average salary by location in Germany. These numbers come from the uh geheldsfeglich.com website and we start with Munich, so in Munich the average gross salary is 46,752 euros per year in Düsseldorf is 45,468 euros per year in Stuttgart is 47,580 euros per year in Hamburg 41,976 euros a year in Frankfurt 47,856 euros and Berlin is actually 37,800 euros a year gross again, so that's based on location Based on a full-time 40-hour work week, now based on these numbers it's They see certain nuances.

Munich is notoriously known for being the most expensive city to live in Germany. However, it does not pay the highest salary on average. the top range, but if God and Frankfurt paid more, Stuttgart is also among the three most expensive cities and Frankfurt is also the banking capital, so I think that has a big influence, but you see this big gap between all the cities. I mentioned and Berlin, yes, there is a salary difference of 10,000 euros gross per year and that is because Berlin per se, in terms of supermarkets, food, dining out, is not very expensive.

However, Berlin has exploded in recent years and I don't want to say so far. Munich level, but still more expensive, so in Berlin you should also pay attention to your salary. If you like this video, be sure to consider hitting the like button and if you haven't already subscribed to our channel. then make sure to press the red button at the bottom that would really help this channel and if you want to go the extra mile you can always buy from us on coffee at simple

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.com coffee this is a virtual coffee which is a small donation to help us continue with simple germany thank you for your support now that we touch on the topic of location and how that affects the average salary now let's talk about the job or the profession itself as we mentioned in another video about how to get a job in germany Without speaking German we highlight that if you are in the technology or IT industry, your chances of getting an English speaking job are much greater than in a non-tech industry, that is why for this specific part of the video we will talk about jobs related to technology or at least digital departments, right, it's not a technology company per se, but the digital department of a company, that's a very good point, so we'll mention three of the most popular job titles, let's say digital, yeah , come on.

Start with the project manager, depending on his experience, a project manager could earn on average between fifty-two thousand and sixty-seven thousand euros per year and depending on the experience, he arranges if you have less than three experiences of experience versus if you have more. Over nine years of experience, so there really is a big difference also in terms of yes, job knowledge. Now let's move on to a software engineer position. As a software engineer, if you have less than three years of experience, you could get it or the average is about. 54,000 euros, while if you are a very experienced senior software engineer with more than nine years of experience, that figure rises on average to 70,000.

Now, as a ux designer, as a very new ux designer, you can earn a average of just 42,000 euros and up to 54,000 euros on average if you have many more years of experience again, take these figures with a grain of salt because it is an average for the entire country and, as we have mentioned, it is very, very different in in all cities, but just to give you an estimate of how much people in these professions earn, now we also mention that gender plays a role in salary and, unfortunately, Germany, like many other countries in the world, also suffers from the gender pay gap, so on average, men earn 49,752 euros per year compared to women, 42,936 euros per year.

I think the difference is quite high, I mean, quite high, especially since these figures are based on the same professions. The right professionals don't come out of nowhere, yes, no. All hope has been lost. There are many initiatives in Germany and Europe to reduce the gender pay gap and one of these initiatives is a company called 50 in tech and 50 in tech. The name comes because they want 50% of the workforce to be women. and that they are paid the same as men 50 in technology also has a job board and in that work where they promote jobs from companies that have committed 250 in technology that are open to greater diversity and to have equal pay between genders, as well That's pretty cool, if you're looking for a job that you also know from companies that thrive on these values, be sure to check out 15 Technologies Now.

We also mentioned that the size of the company matters in terms of salary and that is generally an effect, I mean we are always an exception to the rules, right, and technically

what

that means is that the larger the company, i.e. , the more employees and the more similar it is to a corporate style, the higher your salary will be versus the smaller the company, the more similar. Let's say a startup is trendy and less bureaucratic in that sense, the lower the salary, there are exceptions, but keep that in mind too, yes, also the bigger the company, sometimes the greater the benefits you can get For example, I worked with a very large company. telecommunications company and there the benefits were really good, yes, even that Christmas money as a bonus, yes, but yes, yes, so it was really very good and also other benefits that we are not going to go into in this video, we still have I still have to answer the question of how much is a good salary in Germany and that's because it's not that simple of an answer, but we're getting to that point, so please wait a little longer on this video because we need to give you a little more. context, so in 2021, a step that is also a very large job board or where they promote jobs in Germany, they did a study in which they asked Germans how satisfied they were with their salary exactly and they took like 250,000 points of salary data, so it is quite extensive.

Yes, and surprisingly, 43 of the people who responded said that they were super happy when they had a salary above 64,000 euros a year, which is quite a bit higher than the average salary in Germany, yeah, which is crazy, right ? and 41 answered no. happy when they received a salary equal to or less than 49,000 euros, which is still above the average salesperson in Germany, so this can lead to the conclusion that if let's say you earn 50 euros or more in Germany, you could be in the step. stone path to be happy or to be happy or to be happy again with yourself how much money you need to live happily and comfortably in a country really depends on you and the type of lifestyle you want exactly when I first moved to Germany I earned well below average My first job in Germany and mind you, I was already in my twenties and four years of work experience abroad was also well below average.

Yes, however, I remember that time. I was very happy with my salary because for me money is not everything. For me, one of the main reasons I moved to Germany was to increase my quality of life, so even though I had less money, let's call it sorry, we're in Germany, less money. It had many other advantages that, for example, in Guatemala it did not have. We have a whole video of like 10 things I love about living in Germany that you can watch there to know a little bit more about what I'm talking about and that for me was a big change and obviously over time more so. work experience I also switched roles between customer service and being a software engineer, which also totally increased my salary range, but I also earned less salary.

I had my own apartment. I traveled, I mean, obviously I didn't do luxury travel, but again. I traveled, you know, I got to see places. I went out again. I didn't go out to dinner every week, but I had my beers on the way, so it depends on your lifestyle, but more importantly it also depends on whether you are moving alone or with family, if you have a partner to support children, that, of course, you have to take into account and maybe, obviously, strive for an above-average salary. Yes, 100 agree and that also leads to the question: how about purchasing power?

Because, like you mentioned, money. It's not everything in the country, you need to know how much you can buy with that money. We have a very geeky explanation in our guide that we're not going to go into in this video because it would be too much. For this video that you can watch on simplegermany.com, we will link it in the description below at the end of the day, the decision should be as we already mentioned yours, as long as you know what the average salary is and where you stand in that salary average in relation to the rest of the country, I think from there you can go a little further and then analyze your lifestyle, even if it is a calculator now, check the cost of living in the area where you are going to work, Yeah. exactly and all these things and we have another video on pure cost of living in Germany that might help you understand also the salary I receive at the end of the day, will it be enough for me and my family? who else are you moving in with, so make sure you check out what the next step will be until next time, regards.