[naniwaduni]

> The minimum net salary in Romania is about €280, which is about $360, which is about $500 net.

This looks like you double-converted, and and also at an exceptionally high exchange rate.

And besides, we should probably be comparing euros directly to Apple's prices in euros, which, best I can tell, are in fact bigger numbers than their USD prices—the baseline offerings are listed at €1,449 and €1,679 (vs $1,299 and $1,499), and I can get the configurator up to €2,599, which puts us at a €370 monthly junior dev salary.

[oblio]

$500 gross. $6000 gross. "u abused" should be "excluding a very small percentage abused by their employers".

And Romania has a fixed 10% tax rate so the higher you go, the more you benefit from it. So IT folks keep a lot of their salary.