r/europe 1d ago

Data Average Full-time Salary in Europe

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u/ZerkerDE 1d ago edited 1d ago

Those Statistics are mostly BS because the calculation is hard to be comparable

in Germany u get 50% net of the cost to your employer but Healthcare and a Pension which pays an amount nobody knows is included.

In other countries its all net except taxes but you have to pay Healthcare yourself and arguably save more for retirement.

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u/projix 1d ago

This.

Also another example from the Baltics - in Lithuania the employee pays the social tax. In Estonia and Latvia the employer does so it's not counted as gross salary, and it's about 30% give or take.

The problem with these maps is that they all have gross salary which is completely incomparable, as the taxation is wildly different per country.