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If you feel bad about that, you should check out salaries in Italy.

I don't know how good this data is, but from experience I can tell you that an average salary is 15-20k after taxes: http://www.payscale.com/research/IT/Job=Sr._Software_Enginee...

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It's almost the same in Spain. And freelancing is not an option here: companies try to pay you the same as a regular employee but without benefits, or they want to hire you full time for half the rate.

I didn't find too much of a difference between the UK and Barcelona. Outside of Barcelona and Madrid though I imagine the difference is quite vast.

Definitely. Spain is behind Italy, then Portugal and Greece last.

Pretty sad.

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