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Not just for big companies like Accenture.

The Spanish market is full of small consultancies and they still charge a 2.5-3 times the worker salary to their clients.

This makes very hard for anyone to get a salary above 45k euros because paying above 150k (21% VAT included) is hard to justify just for one person.

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In Poland it's similar. However, in UK, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Finland (just examples of countries where I or my colleagues have contracted in the past) companies are open to paying 100k-200k EUR directly to the contractor, provided he has the skills they're after.

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