Salary comparisons are tricky because salary depends not only on skillset and experience, but also on location, industry sector, platform (mainframe, win32, *nix), and the prevailing market trend. Complicating further is the sometimes significant difference between advertised and paid salary.

Having said all that, the national average salary paid for a "Senior Programmer" in the UK is £35,3541. After tax and NI that would give a monthly take-home of £2,149 according to this tax calculator. That's 3,156 Euros.

This might seem a lot (and maybe it is) but another factor is the cost of living. For example, rent of a luxury two bedroom unfurnished apartment (per month) in London is £1,700 but only (ha!) £757 in Prague2.


1 ComputerWeekly Salary Survey April 2006 (UK Only)
2 http://www.finfacts.com/costofliving.htm

 

In reply to Re: Money is not purpose of my life, but... by EdwardG
in thread Money is not purpose of my life, but... by pajout

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