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by dns_snek 266 days ago
No, it's 50% marginal income tax rate on income over 75k EUR. With a median SWE salary of ~85k EUR you would be taking home 55k a year, that's an effective tax rate of 35% [1]

And that's before we even start talking about what kind of life that country and salary affords you, i.e. the thing that people actually care about, and not just materialistically but also culturally.

[1] https://thetax.nl/?income=85000&startFrom=Year&selectedYear=...