[haywirez]

Berlin is still a great place to live, but dev salaries are low and seem to stuck at a ceiling of about €70-75K/y gross for senior/lead positions (there are exceptions, but even this is a hard sell to get). For a long time this was "justified" by the allegedly low cost of living. This is not true anymore, the city is rapidly getting more expensive (housing) and the leverage has all but vanished. Senior devs who are moving here, please smash the ceiling and ask for more (you deserve it).

[yashap]

Senior dev at a Canadian tech company here. At a good Canadian tech company in Vancouver or Toronto, as a senior+ dev, you can make $120-140K CAD (83-96K EUR). You can make substantially less than that as a senior+ dev too (plenty of senior devs making $80-100K CAD), but $120-140K is moderately common. And if you work for a Canadian office of a big American tech company (for example Amazon has a major presence in Vancouver), you can make a lot more.

Canadian costs of living are high, and the salaries are low compared to the states, but they’re still some of the better non-American tech salaries out there.

[denvrede]

That's one thing that surprised me when I got serveral offers from headhunters for Berlin located jobs. The highest paying one was 68k (at max).

Meanwhile I work in Essen with a lot of cheap housing in and around the city for 75k. And I'm just your everyday non-senior "DevOps Engineer".

[ido]

This gels with my experience of compensation here, but just to add another data point: when earning €70k & being functionally the sole breadwinner of a family of 4 I managed to save almost 40% of my net pay while not trying to live particularly frugally.

Despite recent price hikes Berlin remains a remarkably inexpensive western major-city.