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Community-reported compensation, savings, lifestyle and infrastructure data from software engineers across Europe.

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Best for savings
Switzerland
€39,943

Estimated annual savings after tax and cost of living.

Best lifestyle score
Bulgaria
2.13 / 3

Crowdsourced quality-of-life signal from engineers (scale 1–3).

Most jobs listed
United Kingdom
3,408

4,633 Europe-friendly remote jobs tracked.

Big Tech Savings

For entry-level, mid-level and senior big tech & FAANG Software Engineers, based on lifestyle.

To read our analysis based on this information, check this article.

Lifestyle

Seniority

RankCityYearly Savings
#1
Seattle, USA83k USD
#2
Austin, USA81k USD
#3
Zurich (Zug residence), Switzerland73k USD
#4
Zurich, Switzerland60k USD
#5
San Francisco, USA57k USD
#6
New York, USA45k USD
#7
Munich, Germany28k USD
#8
Amsterdam, Netherlands27k USD
#9
London, England26k USD
#10
Cambridge, England26k USD
#11
Miami, USA25k USD
#12
Copenhagen, Denmark25k USD
#13
Paris, France24k USD
#14
Edinburgh, Scotland23k USD
#15
Belgrade, Serbia21k USD
#16
Singapore, Singapore20k USD
#17
Dublin, Ireland20k USD
#18
Warsaw, Poland18k USD
#19
Tallinn, Estonia17k USD
#20
Berlin, Germany16k USD
#21
Bucharest, Romania16k USD
#22
Krakow, Poland16k USD
#23
Luxemburg, Luxembourg16k USD
#24
Oslo, Norway15k USD
#25
Aarhus, Denmark14k USD
#26
Bangalore, India13k USD
#27
Barcelona, Spain12k USD
#28
Madrid, Spain11k USD
#29
Stockholm, Sweden8k USD
#30
Prague, Czech Republic3k USD

How the composite score is calculated

Every country and city is scored 0–100 by an equal-weight composite of three crowdsourced pillars. Higher is better. The weights are fixed and identical for every row.

Composite = 100 × mean( norm(savings) , norm(lifestyle) , norm(people_supported) )

norm(x) = (x − min) / (max − min)     # min & max taken across all ranked
                                      # countries (or cities), per pillar

The three pillars (⅓ weight each)

  • Annual savings — euros kept per year after tax and cost of living (absolute €).
  • Lifestyle level — self-reported quality-of-life, scale 1 (frugal) to 3 (luxurious).
  • Avg. people supported — how many people the income supports (household-size signal).
  • Each pillar is min-max normalized across the ranked set, so a score is relative to the other places shown — not an absolute index.
  • The score always uses absolute € savings. The “Savings as % of income” toggle is a display view only and never changes a ranking.
  • The Happiness & Infrastructure ranking uses the same method with two equal-weight pillars (happiness, tax & infrastructure satisfaction).
  • Rows backed by fewer than 25 submissions are flagged low n and can be hidden with the “high-confidence only” toggle.
Cite this data

Euro Top Tech — Crowdsourced Software Engineer Salary & Savings Rankings (Europe). https://www.eurotoptech.com/data