Hacker News Reader

Senior level software engineer here- I just relocated to Berlin from SF and I'm not seeing it. I've also talked to a lot of other programmers / employers of programmers here and no one has ever spoken of salaries that high.

If these salaries were real, I would not be trying to do side-projects full time from home!

View on HN

Care to share what range are the salaries are in?

From what I hear I'd place the average for a solid experienced dev at around 40k-60k Euro per year with a pretty wide spread [1]. It's hard to tell though, I might be living in a bubble :)

[1] 3+ years, at least one larger scale project. Knowledge of more than 1 programming language

Other comments in the thread seem to fit what I'm seeing in job postings and from word of mouth. 50-60k EUR gross, maybe you can do better, maybe not. I could be totally wrong though, as the poster above me just said 40k.

If you want to make a ton of money as a programmer, the US is still where it's at IMO.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com