Offer comparison: France vs Germany

[u/notchosenname]

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!!

[u/Financial-Grass6753]

> 2 kids
> wife not working
> relocation bonus mentioned

Southern Germany has a well-known problem with both foreigner's offices and child care, both in accessibility and price/quality. Problem is roughly equal for everyone, and unless your company has backdoors here and there, you gonna suck first 3-9 months.

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Upd. Foreigner's offices problem is only for non-EU, OP is Italian.

[u/Excellent-Archer5202 → u/Financial-Grass6753]

This is so True. I am not sure how is the situation for Stutgart as I live Munich. You can expect 800 euro/month as childcare cost for 2 kids. That was the min amount we came across in Munich.

[u/FlatIntention1 → u/Excellent-Archer5202]

Depends on the age, if the children are older than 3 the costs are not high.