Webdeveloper from Germany, nerd, gamer, atheist, interested in nerd-culture, biology of everything creepy, evolution, history, physics, politics and space.

Progressive. Ally. SocDem. Euro-Federalist.

Political Compass: -7.0, -6.62

  • 0 Posts
  • 14 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 21st, 2023

help-circle




  • Assuming single with no kids, you’d get:

    Gross 60.000,00 €

    Net 37.209,78 €

    Taxes 11.262,97 € (includes 929,97 € church-tax that you can get rid off by leaving your church)

    Pension insurance 5.580,00 €

    Unemployment insurance 780,00 €

    Health insurance 4.847,85 €

    Long-term care insurance 1.249,37 €

    Those are all the compulsory insurances.

    Having a partner in marriage who earns less than you and / or children will increase your net.

    For the average German in your average City that’s somewhere between just short of wealthy and wealthy. There are poorly paid IT specialists who earn gross what you would take home net. It’s definitely enough that you can live quite good if your significant other works too and more than enough to raise a family. The median household income in Germany is 42k gross.

    Also remember this is only the employee side of what you cost your employer, because they’ll have to double up your insurances, so you would cost them 75k a year.


  • Every. Single. Day.

    My cars bluetooth is broken, so I connect my phone via headphone jack. This way I can still use my cars speakers and mic to receive phone calls and listen to music or audiobooks on my one hour drive to work.

    I also despise bluetooth headphones. My phones batteries last longer since I don’t use bluetooth anymore and I can’t be bothered to not lose them and always have them charged when I want to use them.

    With my good wired Bose headphones I pay a third of what the wireless crap would cost, have better sound and they are always ready, easily to take care of and at worst slightly tangled from being crammed into a jeans pocket.