| Articles like these are complete garbage for any practical extrapolation and thus only really written as ad pieces. Why? Because: - cost of living isn’t taken into account - and even if it were, the cost of living varies wildly from one city to another. So you’d need less generalised results - converting everything to USD makes no sense when the article is supposed to be about European countries. And since exchange rates can add their own slant on figures, this isn’t really intended to be an accurate representation - it also doesn’t take into account variations in professions (IT is a broad industry) - where has the data come from? I wouldn’t trust any report that basically scraped job listing boards. So many European job adverts don’t disclose salaries, some do but never get filled because they ask too little. So do get filled but at a rate that differs from the advertised range (it’s not uncommon for salary haggling to happen once an offer has been sent). This article will surely generate conversation but please be aware that it’s far too unscientific to be worth drawing any conclusions from. |