Is a 80,000 euro good salary in Germany for my career? Average Salary in Germany, Cost of Living

Average salary in Germany is 80,000 euro or something else?

 

Hello.

 

Here, I am going to telling you shortly about the salary level for the automotive engineer in Germany.

As you may want to transfer from your mother country to Germany, one out of important points would be the salary level (yearly salary, salary expectation) which you will get on your hand in the end.

And you might curious in which level of yearly salary is appropriate w.r.t your career and competencies. 

 

So, I am going to tell you about a small tip for you to get everything well done from the starting in Germany.

As you may know already, Germany is so big enough therefore the 'so called' proper level of salary would be various depending on the area you are gonna be stay.

For sure, it might be weired to generalize the proper level of salary (salary expectation) as per career due to the aforementioned reason, but I tried to make a kinds of proposal based on my experience as below. 

(The level of salary below is a bit higher than the average of the salary at Germany but I thought you are deserved to get it as you got an offer from the global german companies and that proves itself who you are.)

 

(Regarding more detailed advices when you are doing some negotiation in terms of the salary, please refer to the another posting).

 

 

Pre-condition) 40 hours/week, 30 days/year vacation

1. Junior engineer (carrer 5 yrs ~ 10 yrs): 5,000 ~ 6,000 euro/month, 65,000 ~ 80,000 euro/year (incl, bonus)

2. Senior engineer (more than 10 yrs): 6,000 ~ 7,000 euro/month, 80,000 ~ 95,000 euro/year (incl, bonus)

3. Expert, manager (more than 15 yrs): 7,000 ~ 8,000 euro/month, 95,000 ~ 110,000 euro/year (incl, bonus)

 

In addition, here is one web-site you could probably refer to got first impression regarding the level of salary for the engineers in Germanay. (https://www.gehaltsvergleich.com/)

As it is writting in German, it might be irritating to read it but I would say it is worth of it.

 

Average salary in germany 2020 (source: www.gehaltsvergleich.com)

 

 

Once you click 'JOBBRÖSE', you will encounter the following screen and all what you have to do is just 'entering the name of company or job position or key word' and click 'jobs finden' in turn.

If you want to see the result with only dedicated area, you could do in by filling in 'Ort' which means 'region/place' in English (e.g. Frankfurt).

As a consequence, you will find the list of opening job with level of salary (monthly) as per open position.

 

Hope it does a bit helpful.

1Average salary in germany 2020 (source: www.gehaltsvergleich.com)

 

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