Maximum credit limit according to economic journalist Frank Lehmann

Elina,

if you want, just let me know. I would like to take a look at your documents and might be able to say something. You said that one or the other has already done that, but then a few more eyes won’t hurt. I have already seen hundreds of CVs and cover letters in my life.

That would be kind, do you have an email address where I can send it?

75k gross/year as a cheap IT specialist

Better compare starting salaries. As a cheap IT specialist you get 30,000-35,000 here in the East. I think that's also okay. What's not okay is 20,000 EUR per year for a childcare worker or geriatric nurse or nurse or or or..

75k as an IT specialist is hardly ever the norm anywhere. With us, that would be 45k with professional experience.

...Here people are writing about 75k gross/year as a cheap IT specialist. Or 60k without a degree after 2 years and stuff like that... You only earn 75k at VW starting with AT or Tarif Plus. And until then, it takes at least 10 years as a graduate....

Obviously, we have a concentration of above-average incomes in the forum. If you simply base it on the distribution of taxable incomes in Germany (and I just assume that the mentioned incomes were not undeclared money), then these are relatively few compared to the population (search for wage and income statistics in Germany). In 2010 it was about 300,000, today it will be more, but certainly not the majority.

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The average salary is considerably lower after all. But surely no one is surprised that there are disproportionately many high earners in a construction forum...

What must always be considered, however, is the salary in relation to the cost of living. If you don’t work in Frankfurt and live in Northern Hesse or the Eifel, you simply spend much more money on daily life. I recall a chart that ultimately “realistically” shows that the differences between locations are not that big when considering everything together...

And lastly, this rule of thumb from Lehmann is not very meaningful to me. It neither takes into account the salary level (basic living costs will no longer weigh so heavily with high salaries), nor a dynamic development of income nor other personal circumstances.

Obviously, we have a concentration of above-average incomes in the forum.

Well, who mostly builds? Definitely not hairdressers or other poorly paid professions. Usually, they are just regular citizens. Then the few percent who earn less probably won't spread it here that they overextended themselves.

So it's clear that this post creates an impression that everyone earns above average.