Wait with the building application because of the child construction allowance

Apparently you live in a different country than I do

I rather think you live in a different world. Of course, some people earn the salaries you mentioned. Maybe even 10% of the German population and 100% of your surroundings. But what about the other 90% who are not professors, who do not work at BASF, Audi, or Siemens? You should know a few of them too, for example when you buy something at the bakery or order a package from Amazon that is packed and delivered by real low-wage earners, and so on. Because actually, this was NOT about the salary of academics, but about the fact that with your statements you simply ignore the large majority of workers, the non-academics, as if they did not exist. Incidentally, people without whom you would starve and freeze.

No, from my point of view, it was specifically about academics and their average salaries recently. Please no false accusations, I myself do not exactly come from an academic background.

The conclusion that other companies have to "cut costs" because IG Metall achieves high settlements is quite far-fetched

That may be true in power plant construction, but in the automotive sector, which is certainly not insignificant in Germany, that's just how it works. It's no wonder when you consider that a car manufacturer from Stuttgart spends 40-60 € per hour on external development. Who is supposed to pay such wages from that?

I assume that in the engineering sector, due to the oversupply of personnel, wages will continue to decline in the future. I don't even want to know what the newcomers are currently earning with us...

The car manufacturer does not say "IG Metall has held back in their demands, so we pay our suppliers more." They save wherever they can and that is completely independent of IG Metall.

Apart from that, I would like to point out again the difference between gross salary and taxable income, which is quite significant at least in our case.

The fact is, since I started 6 years ago, the hourly rates have continued to decline. The wages of those with [IG Metall Tarif] rise and rise...

Do you think they would watch every cent if they didn't have [Sesselfurzer] there with well over 100k annual salary?

In the public sector, BA graduates start at E9b; anyone wanting more than E11 necessarily needs leadership responsibility, alongside which professional qualification is not unimportant, but not decisive. In other words: over- or wrongly qualified. With about 800 employees, I can probably count those earning E14 or more on 4-5 hands. And of those, a minority has a master's, doctorate, or similar. Honestly, I don’t know a single Dr. So all in all, under 5% of the employees...