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by ChuckNorris89 1965 days ago
>My point isn’t that some people have it good, it’s that €1-2k a month isn’t exactly glamorous living.

It isn't glamorous, you're right but I wasn't talking about inequality here, I was saying that very few students in Europe have 2K per month at their disposal.

>If you’re coming out of university and making £2k a month that is a bit low.

AFAIK, 2K Euros per month, after taxes, is your typical starting wage for a full time dev job in a decent company in countries like Germany. To get significantly more than 2K after taxes here as a new grad would put you in the top 10% of devs your age, definitely not the norm in the industry or in Europe.

>An MBA graduate makes €90k+ annually in Denmark.

Do you have a source for this? Because if you do then it would be best for me to give up my dev job in Germany and become an MBA in Denmark. Not /s, but quite serious.

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Before you go MBA, median software engineer salary in Germany these days is €80k:

https://www.levels.fyi/Salaries/Software-Engineer/Germany/

SAP, not exactly known to be a top player, pays entry level jobs in Germany at around €50k: https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html?track=Software%20Engineer&s...

This grows €5k or so per year of experience with promotions.

Though if you leave Germany you’ll notice that your pay will nearly double. That said, job security in Germany is best in the world, so...

Some recent MBA surveys:

Economist: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2017/10/27/full-tim...

Harvard Business School: https://www.hbs.edu/recruiting/data/Pages/location-details.a...

Cambridge business school:

https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/programmes/mba/careers/employment-...

Germany MBAs tend to be a bit lower than average at €65k though I assume that’s due to labor protections etc. I am not an expert in German labor laws just going on information I have researched in the past. https://www.payscale.com/research/DE/Degree=Master_of_Busine...