I live in Ireland and get less than €70k as a senior dev. Ireland is considered to have relatively high
salaries for software developers, at least in a Europe.
Salaries for senior devs range from 30k to 50k, with very little exceptions.
How much does a beachside bartender make?
And why would anyone so much as look at a C++ compiler error message even once for those wages?
Spain in general is very anti-business, especially small/middle business. I had not started freelancing until late in my career because having a paying side job costs you ~$300/month in taxes, regardless of your income this month.