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I've changed jobs since then; these days I still do software but in the financial sector (which is a highly annoying sector since the problem domain is complex and unintuitive).
Back then I did almost triple my salary (more like x 2.5 but it routine taken triple pay to get me to stay) but that's more reflective of how terribly the old job paid.
Alright, it's okay if you don't want to divulge. ๐๐ Glad you got out of that bad situation in the beginning!
No, I misread ("do" instead of "make").
I went from something like 25k to something like 50k, which still wasn't impressive but okay for a junior-level dev. And vastly better than what I made before.
These days I'm somewhere north of 80k but monthly bonuses tied to company performance make it hard to give an accurate number off the top of my head. Depending on who you ask that's either above or below average for someone of my experience level.
That's very, very good. How much are you able to save of that 80 or so K? To give an estimate of the living costs of where you live? (I swear I'm not trying to dox you ๐ )
Well, that heavily depends upon factors like what kind of lifestyle you're living. For example, I save a shitload of money by not needing a car.
In general I'd say that someone who lives in my town and makes roughly what I do could save 1k to 2k per month depending on how much discretionary spending they want to be able to do. Possibly more if they're very frugal.
In case we're comparing to the USA here, Germany has lower wages and higher taxes but a lot of stuff is way cheaper, especially education and healthcare. My health insurance premium can't exceed 14.6% of my income, deductibles don't exist, and most procedures are fully covered โ for instance, when I went to a hospital for surgery and stayed for four days, my total bill was 40 โฌ.
Kind of the same where I live in northern Europe then. ๐