[theodric]

1-2k/mo will get you a Dutch person, too. Those are not bad wages.

[munk-a]

Under 2k/mo translates to an annual earnings around 12-15k (when you account for employee overhead) which is somewhere between 6.15-7.69/hr - even if we allow for the full 2k to be an actual employee earning you're still only looking at 11.79/hr which isn't nothing but is still absolute peanuts for software developers in euros. I guess, going by median salary, you'd probably be able to snag two devs in Belarus[1] for that much?

1. https://www.payscale.com/research/BY/Job=Software_Developer/...

[gambiting]

As my first programming job as a junior in UK just few years ago I was paid £18k/year, so £1500 a month(so about 2K USD).

That's for a very fresh out of uni junior outside of London though. You'd struggle to find someone willing to work for that nowadays.

[zokier]

Very much doubt that. Glassdoor has average base pay for SW engineer in Amsterdam at $61k/year https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/amsterdam-software-engine...

[arp242]

Well, you have to offset the cost of living too.

[imtringued]

Isn't the minimum wager higher than that? Maybe you are mixing something up and are talking about after tax income.