[romaniatax]

It is. Worth noting that I know no one among locals that are permanent employees to earn < 2500 EUR after tax. Pre-tax as a permanent that's 45-50k EUR a year (with some margin of error). That's for senior level devs with > 10 years of experience. Junior or mid is way less. BI/Data science or web dev. Game dev and other types of development are low paid, as in western europe. I had my first shock when Microsoft offered a salary of 70k + bens for someone from cluj napoca to relocate to London around 2014, and they flat out turned it out because cost of living adjusted they earned more in Cluj. Go figure that out. Tbh if you earn 2.5k in Romania after tax you are way way better off than someone earning 4k in London.

[AdrianB1]

I know several people just out of college that earn 50k in Bucharest or Cluj, not after 10 years. The salaries increased a lot in the past 5 years, but still 120k is extremely rare, above director level for employee type of contracts.

[romaniatax]

That's impressive!

120k is a medium level contract in the UK, at least for my background, so I am technically speaking ... cheap.

In Romania, from what I gather, a director can mean a low level manager. Pretty soon the market will adjust and learn that they are not worth the money. CTO/CEO director levels, yes. Experienced Product Managers that actually drive the product, sure. But management that does nothing but crack the whip and demand to be addressed as "dumneavoastra" to inflate their egos are a dying breed.

[mistrial9]

people "just out of college" earn a lot more than someone with 20 years experience, in tech here. In fact, there is straight discrimination against people over 30 in many tech shops in the USA.