[Oddskar]

This is not the case in Europe from what I’ve heard. SW devs with the right domain knowledge in cars get very well compensated.

[ChuckNorris89]

Then you heard wrong. I left European automotive SW because they paid peanuts. Sure, maybe there's some requirements engineers at Porsche or some niche freelance consultants in safety who makes bank, but everyone else makes peanuts. IC pay tops out at 80k per ear and that's in an expensive city like Stuttgart or Munich.

[Oddskar]

I didn’t hear anything “wrong” at all. I know people personally which make a lot more than that. If you did R&D for 80k in a senior role you got robbed.

[ChuckNorris89]

Then can you please enlighten me which are those automotive companies that pay six figure salaries for ICs (not managers)?

The whole "industry pay isn't low, I know someone who's a millionaire, you're underpaid" alone doesn't really help anyone without any hard facts.

[VirusNewbie]

But still peanuts compared to American tech companies… so is the majority of talent going to stay in auto or go to big tech?