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		ff232fffffrt on Jan 14, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe? Western Europe is the worst place to be a software engineer. Your salaries will only be like 20% above average salary in the country. However, unlike other jobs, you spend tons of time to learn new technologies, visit a university and all that for absolutely nothing. Decline of Europe is inevitable. In Germany, a tiler with almost no education will make more money than a software engineer.

Hamuko on Jan 14, 2021 [–]

>However, unlike other jobs, you spend tons of time to learn new technologies, visit a university and all that for absolutely nothing.

I mean, I have a ton of perks, my job isn't that stressful and I don't even have to leave my home.

I feel like as a software engineer, I'm pretty well off in general.

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