>We’ve used publicly available job boards and self reported data points on European data pay to collect data for 500 jobs across 260 companies.<p>Unfortunately this isn't a particularly useful methodology. Pay data isn't a legal requirement in job ads in Europe (yet) and most job ads opt not to include the data.<p>Publicly available salary is tricky but there's plenty of reliable, highly accurate pay-to-access sources like the Radford Aon Comp Survey:
<a href="https://radford.aon.com/en-us/products/surveys/technology-compensation-survey" rel="nofollow">https://radford.aon.com/en-us/products/surveys/technology-co...</a>
Calling this Europe data when you're comparing data from 5 European cities is a bit exaggerated. We have 44 countries in Europe and even within a country there can be significant differences.
Interesting article, but they don't link to the data, just suggest that you build the dataset yourself with Google. I'm also not seeing mention of cost of living.<p>> For ease of comparison we’ve converted all numbers to USD ($).<p>That seems a strange choice, given that this is Europe. The target market for this blog post must not be Europeans.
If you are in one of the supported countries <a href="https://techpays.eu" rel="nofollow">https://techpays.eu</a>, feels like a more comprehensive source than this blog post.
Hmm I wonder how they did the TC though since the value of stock has absolutely plummeted now.<p>On salary I'm well below the median value here despite being a senior engineer at a large international company, in a department that pays slightly higher on average.<p>Salaries in Europe are pitiful nevertheless, and then you've gotta add the 40% income tax and 25% VAT too :(
So, converted in USD, and comparing gross salaries when there's massive variations in cost of living and taxes.
I worked in the UK and the EU, made significantly more in the UK, but didn't have a comparatively higher quality of life.
This could be useful for a multinational looking into allocating its workforce, but I'd advise candidates to do a little bit more reasearch before packing up and moving...
Articles like these are complete garbage for any practical extrapolation and thus only really written as ad pieces.<p>Why? Because:<p>- cost of living isn’t taken into account<p>- and even if it were, the cost of living varies wildly from one city to another. So you’d need less generalised results<p>- 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<p>- it also doesn’t take into account variations in professions (IT is a broad industry)<p>- 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).<p>This article will surely generate conversation but please be aware that it’s far too unscientific to be worth drawing any conclusions from.
The post has no methods section. So we have no clue what their data was, how they gathered it, how representative it was... nothing. I didn't find this particularly useful. Surely there is a group out there who's done a high quality (and ongoing) survey with reliable data on this.
I was quite surprised that the 75 percentile salary is highest in Amsterdam.<p>Anecdotally it seems that the top end of salaries is much higher in London than in Amsterdam, but maybe that doesn't show until the 90-95th percentile.
The median for EU vs US salaries seems likely to be around the same, but the high end in the EU is completely neutered compared to the US. Even in top companies like e.g. Meta, the pay in the US is significantly higher.<p>US ($339k): <a href="https://www.levels.fyi/companies/facebook/salaries/software-engineer/levels/e5" rel="nofollow">https://www.levels.fyi/companies/facebook/salaries/software-...</a><p>UK ($200k): <a href="https://www.levels.fyi/companies/facebook/salaries/software-engineer/levels/e5/locations/united-kingdom" rel="nofollow">https://www.levels.fyi/companies/facebook/salaries/software-...</a>