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Originally Posted by thinkx
$2500 a month is a complete joke for a salary here in Holland. Thats bout $800 more then we get as social sec when unemployed. If youre a programmer here and making $2500 or less then youre doing something wrong.
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Perhaps now. But 5 years abou it was the right salary. I know that for sure because I'm was working as a programmer my self and I met lots of other programmers there. So may be now the salaries there are bigger. However they are still can not be comparid with the Moscow ones if you taki into account that all salaries in Russia are tax-free (i.e. the taxes were paid out for you by you employer). However the salaries in Netherlands are not tax-free, because YOU (but not your employer) have to pay the taxes. And as far as I know the Dutch taxes are much bigger than taxes here in Russia which is 13% for income tax, or ONLY 6% joint tax for a small business. For instance I'm paying 6% from all my earnings because I'm working for myself.