Crowdsourced Data
Community-reported compensation, savings, lifestyle and infrastructure data from software engineers across Europe.
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
Comfortable
Seniority
L3 (New Grad)
| Rank | City | Yearly Savings |
|---|---|---|
#1 | Seattle, USA | 83k USD |
#2 | Austin, USA | 81k USD |
#3 | Zurich (Zug residence), Switzerland | 73k USD |
#4 | Zurich, Switzerland | 60k USD |
#5 | San Francisco, USA | 57k USD |
#6 | New York, USA | 45k USD |
#7 | Munich, Germany | 28k USD |
#8 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 27k USD |
#9 | London, England | 26k USD |
#10 | Cambridge, England | 26k USD |
#11 | Miami, USA | 25k USD |
#12 | Copenhagen, Denmark | 25k USD |
#13 | Paris, France | 24k USD |
#14 | Edinburgh, Scotland | 23k USD |
#15 | Belgrade, Serbia | 21k USD |
#16 | Singapore, Singapore | 20k USD |
#17 | Dublin, Ireland | 20k USD |
#18 | Warsaw, Poland | 18k USD |
#19 | Tallinn, Estonia | 17k USD |
#20 | Berlin, Germany | 16k USD |
#21 | Bucharest, Romania | 16k USD |
#22 | Krakow, Poland | 16k USD |
#23 | Luxemburg, Luxembourg | 16k USD |
#24 | Oslo, Norway | 15k USD |
#25 | Aarhus, Denmark | 14k USD |
#26 | Bangalore, India | 13k USD |
#27 | Barcelona, Spain | 12k USD |
#28 | Madrid, Spain | 11k USD |
#29 | Stockholm, Sweden | 8k USD |
#30 | Prague, Czech Republic | 3k 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 pillarThe 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