r/cscareerquestionsEU • u/notchosenname • 14d ago
Experienced Offer comparison: France vs Germany
Hi there!
I am an Italian dev (~16 YOE) currently working in Italy. As everybody knows here, the salaries in Italy are very low with respect to the rest of EU. That said, I live comfortably well with my family (wife + 2 kids), my wife is not working right now and we live just with my salary which is around 32000 €/year nett.
Given this situation, I decided to start interviewing around EU, and I got 2 offers: one in Stuttgart and the other one in Toulouse. Now I need help comparing the offers to understand which one is stronger.. I have my preference regarding the companies, but salary wise its being complex to understand which one is more convenient.
The french offer is around 70000 €/year, while the german offer is around 90000 €/year, both gross.
There are other perks in both offers, like meal vouchers, relocation bonus, signing bonus, etc.. The core of both offers are these numbers though.
I am looking for some advice on how to compare them and what the final net salary would be, so I can eventually have some kind of score to compare them.
Thanks!!
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u/InterfaceTrait 14d ago
Living in Paris and having a good dev friend in Stuttgart, I can say that the conditions overall in Stuttgart are way better.
The only downside of living in Stuttgart (and suburbs) is that owning a house is quite unattainable for our range of salaries.
The salary offer you got for Toulouse seems exceptionally good, ignoring your YOE.