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Hey community, because in Germany they always say you don't talk about money but I'm still interested.


How much money do you currently earn, in which industry do you work?

And possibly what was your career like?


Of course only if you want to talk about it openly.

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I work in the "remodeling team" of a supermarket chain and earn around €45,000 gross per year including vacation and Christmas bonuses (collective agreement). No responsibility, just a normal employee.

With my current tax class 3, I get around €2600 net. So I'm more of a low earner among the people here 😅 But my wife will soon have finished her second apprenticeship and fortunately I don't have to provide financially for my wife and child on this salary alone.

I had myself "downgraded" from a management position a few years ago. In return, I gave up around €1000 more a month so that I could spend more time with my family and watch my child grow up. Before, I was at work from morning to night. Now I have Saturdays and Sundays off and all public holidays and vacations, which is actually absolutely impossible in the food retail trade. So it's a normal life. I did the certified retail specialist course at the IHK.

This post has become a bit long, sorry 😅
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@ZPark91 Hats off and respect to you
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@ZPark91 ditto ;) I also grew up in food retailing and after 15 years switched to field sales. However, to the other "side" hehe, I now sell spirits for a large manufacturer and haven't regretted the move after 5 years. Last year I made €56,000 gross with bonuses. Not bad in my world. Unfortunately, I didn't take the step earlier... as a store manager, I really got a "pittance" for the amount of work. LG to you and have a great time with your family
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@ZPark91 3400€ for 21 hours in three days.
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900 euros parental allowance plus, dad, steep career, over for now 😂
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@Wealth-Accelerator I feel that. 630€ parental allowance, but part-time after the 3rd unplanned child. 🙋‍♀️ Steep career up until the 2nd child, now unofficially no longer eligible. 🙄
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@mami_goes_boerse
I will also return part-time for the time being. But I won't let that put me off my stride.
Careers are long and if you had and showed potential in your early years, I believe that if you keep working hard, you can reach the top again 💪🏼
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@Wealth-Accelerator Without meaning any offense: As a man, yes, as a woman you're put straight into a pigeonhole that you won't get out of any time soon. I think there are enough statistics about that. When I was pregnant, I worked overtime some days until the last day before maternity leave. Nobody applauds that at the end 😅 I'm not complaining. I work in IT and also as a manager.
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@mami_goes_boerse
I don't have the feeling that it was any different for me. I was in a small company at VP level and have never seen the C-level look so stupid 🤷‍♂️
But it's my life, my decisions 😊
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@Wealth-Accelerator I think it's really good when men also take parental leave. I always try to encourage that. It always causes eye rolls at management level 😬
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This year my annual salary should settle at a good 165k. Management position in IT. Trained as a software developer and then ventured into employee management a few years ago. Industry: Finance.
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Student, approx. 200-400€ per month - in summer one month as a vacation jobber 2000€

I'm probably one of the few people here on the platform who currently contribute absolutely no added value to society 😂
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@Klein-Anleger... but added value for the community 😊
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@Klein-Anleger You even contribute a great deal of added value to society! You take care of school (probably A-levels) and, above all, you take on financial responsibility at a very young age! I don't think that someone like you will drown in debt later on or have to live off the state! Some young people could take a leaf out of your book 💪
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How do you get €200-400 as a student???
Do you deal in the schoolyard?
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@GHF No, if I did, I would probably earn more 😅
have two mini-jobs 🙃 one distributing advertising every weekend and helping out in the garden of an elderly retired doctor (mowing the lawn, disposing of garden waste, changing tires, etc.)
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@Klein-Anleger very cool👍🏻.
If you still have Kappa, I'm also looking for someone for my garden...
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@GHF Where do you live? 😅
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@Klein-Anleger also looking for cheap labor for all kinds of dirty work.
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@DonkeyInvestor No wonder you can't find anyone to clean up after you 🙋🐶
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Near Bonn 😆
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@DonkeyInvestor I already pay decently 😉... and gardening is something nice after all😎
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First money 100 DM/month delivering newspapers at the age of 14... then kitchen hiwi, apprenticeship, BW, bike courier, salesman... at the same time high school diploma and engineering studies... today 145k€ p.a. salary as an executive... 840k€ saved and 3k€ invest per month.
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@artbond Very strong, congratulations!
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As an unskilled good-for-nothing, living in Portugal, 27 years old:

-Net salary office job with home office: 2000€

-Rental income apartment, surplus after all deductions, insurance, taxes etc (! Repairs + WEG extra payments would have to be deducted from this!): 330€

-Dividends after taxes approx. 100€/month

-No housing costs as room rental.

Savings rate 500-750€/month. Will be expanded in the future.
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@Malte123 estás a te dar bem em Portugal , melhor que a maioria das pessoas que vivem aí
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@Denilson Yes, very much so.
People can do well if they're intelligent and creative, but my job, for example, is because of my German.
The job market is bad.
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@Malte123 where u live in Portugal?
I live in Uk I am planning to back to Portugal in 2 year from now , I have a rental property and a degree in tourism , I plan to have 45k into my portfolio, but I am 26 , I still feel it’s not enough of there , I am really stuck with this in my mind
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@Denilson I live 1 hour from Lisbon. If you can find a relatively good job in porto i would say rather move there, you can still find some good palve to buy or rent there that is relatively affordable. Lisbon forget it as a normal guy. Only if you are willing to pay 450-600€ for a room.
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@Malte123 I plan to go back and live with my parents , I will not paid rent, the only thing it’s bothering me it’s find a job can pay at leat 2,000£ with my degree I will starting around 900-1000€ I feel like it’s not enough of there, I used to get 2000-4000 a month at the moment, getting the low income , it’s making me think twice! I live in Almada,15m from Lisbon
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@Denilson what field did you study?
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Tourism and management, I can speak

Portuguese and English! I reconsider maybe go for IT and software engineer, they pay better, and you ?
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@Denilson i am in HR but for german market.
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Without specifying it yourself?

"I want to have have have..." lol

31y, p.m. 8k gross active income, 0.5k passive. Management consulting.

Google would help you outside the bubble by the way 😉
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@GeldGenie sorry, I am currently training to become an IT specialist and receive € 1100 gross.

But Google doesn't give me any information about the people I'm talking to here.
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@TryGettingRich It's tiptop :-)

- You get rich from what you don't spend.
- Enjoy life.
- Income is not a lever but the result of hard work x luck. The only active lever for success is diligence.
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IT in the public service, 3800 net (13 years on the job), Bachelor's + Master's degree in computer science
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@asset_guru_542 Also, but mainly working in systems integration (research department). And also 0 leadership responsibilities (just regular employee).
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@fund_navigator_elshq Brother bachelor and master for 4k net is crazyyy little
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@Marvin22b I already know that, but I'm not the career type and prefer to squeeze everything I can into my portfolio (I live quite frugally anyway, so I can squeeze about half of it into my portfolio)
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37y, 6,200 gross, civil service, federal construction, engineer for energy technology
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A7, fire chief at a professional fire department
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I earn about 300,000 gross per year at the moment (self-employed for 6 months) but I spend all the money on the company to expand it and hire more people. Last year when I was employed 35h/week, I earned about 150.000€ gross per year.
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In the public service for over 30 years. A12, no further career prospects until retirement. Stkl 1, 4700 net. Together with the dividends, it fits.
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34 years old, secondary school certificate, electrician training, now service technician, 6600 gross per month.
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That's an obscene question in Germany....😉
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@value_crafter_1628 I can only agree with that!!! I am beside myself with indignation!!!!!!
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24y., dual study of business administration (6th semester) and have 1250€ gross
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Just under €2,000 net (part-time + part-time job)
In sales
Trained in the sports sector, but didn't enjoy it/ didn't see a future.
And therefore currently still looking for something new.
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3k net electro technician in a medium-sized company!
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They have paid me chf 150k annual salary for the last few years, but my job got boring, so I quit last fall...but they had to pay me for a few more months, because I had to train my successors and had months of vacation and overtime anyway...Let's see what I'll do in the near future..was / am working in IT.
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130k gross, early 40s, team leader in the quality department, not covered by collective agreements in the metal industry, 40 hours,
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Hello namesake 😄

Lawyer in the authority, 2.6k net, but for 32h. Started as an intern during my master's degree and then a colleague went on maternity leave and I got the job.
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I am a department head in the financial industry and have a gross salary of 142k pa including bonus.
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Studied for almost 10 years, almost all dirty jobs through, master's degree in business mathematics, specialized in modern empirical methods (nowadays called AI or data science), earned good money with cryptos and options during my studies, almost 45k dividends p.a. from 2 ETFs, currently working in a corporation as an ATler, started at 65k a few years ago, from Q2 2026 approx. 130k fixed plus variable share 30%. Environment "AI and software architecture". Is not a 35h job. Currently considering stepping on the gas again and going into consulting and scaling the salary to around or over 200k in perspective. All in gross, of course.
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W45 years old, trained in a freight forwarding company and worked in the profession for over 20 years, partly AL, during this time 2EZ (3 and 2.5 years) and then switched to the ÖD. 30 hours, EG6 so some downgraded, around 1900 net. if nothing serious happens, I will complete the 20 years, unless my deposits go up steeply 🫣
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As a 22 year old electrician approx. 3,000€ net +180€ net in a second job.

Dividends are approx. 295€ net per month

But I have to say I'm happy for my age.
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I think it's interesting to hear what others earn so that you can better assess your own salary. Whereby the region certainly plays a big role.

I'm in my mid-40s, a graduate engineer, senior software developer for SAP e-commerce systems, earn 2800 net and live in the east of Munich :-D
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@capital_genius_rtesj Dipl Ing and Senior and SAP, that somehow sounds very little for your education.
After my training, I started at 2500 net, also in the East and as a software developer.
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Hi I am a trained cook 30 live in Gotha Thuringia

I work as a cook in a retirement home and earn about 2k net (basic salary 1950€ net but always make sure that I take Sundays and holidays with me) due to the cheap rent here old building 65qm 3 room and due to the fact that I share the rent and keep my fixed costs low I can invest, minimum 750€ per month plus minus bonuses and the money for blood and plasma donate per month between 130€-175€.

So in good months I can also invest or save 1000-1200€ best regards from the heart of Germany 🐻👍
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Currently working in event technology, although not directly employed as a technician, get 2,200 net, will be 32 this year.
I studied communication design, but yoar... The creative industry is insanely difficult and even more so now with AI.
But I don't know what else to do either. I can do a lot of things and a lot of them are okay, but nothing is absolutely top-notch. 😐

Addendum: edit your post and put your details at the top where everyone can read them 😉
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4000 net - projectmanager in the energysector. Bachelors in mechanical engineering and 2,5 years of work experience - (in the Netherlands)
27, 3000 net (including one-off payments) and working in health insurance.
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27 years old, trained mechatronics technician, I currently net 2300€ without bonuses. Due to various assignments abroad, I get an average net of approx. 3000€
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