Re: salaries in Europe
sirricky said:
in Germany, about 4K Euro/month for a graduate student (first year)
Yeah sure, and I believe in Father Christmas.
I'm from Flanders (very close to and similar to Germany).
4K/month (gross, you have to deduct 50% taxes!) is for >10y experience, and in a manager position.
Have a look at
https://www.vacature.com/art1992
Select
Je statuut:"Bediende" (employee)
Je diplomaniveau: "Academische master hogeschool" or "universiteit". "Hogeschool" (professional master) seems reasonable for someone from a country where degrees are not homologated in Europe. A "universiteit" engineering master in Flanders is the most demanding study of all university eduction, and is very difficult and theoretic. Employers will be very wary of the level of foreign universities from developing countries, and will equate them with the professional master level.
"Je aantal jaren effectieve werkervaring:" # of years experience
"Je functieniveau": (function level) "professioneel medewerker" or "middle management"
"Je functiecategorie": (type of function): the names should be self-evident as there are a lot of English words in the list. Engineering, ICT, Internet, ...
"Je sector": (industry branch): also quite self evident.
This will give a depressingly realistic picture (not so good, you still need to deduct 50% government taxes!). Europe is killing enterpreneurship with taxes.
For more translations of Dutch ("Nederlands") words to English, type them in
www.systransoft.com