Everyone intends to work there, but how much do the workers in Germany really pay?

Figures don't lie to you, but they need to be reread “properly: so you should know, for example, that if you ask in Germany how much your salary is, the answer you get is that is for gross salary, not net, what you really get on the account. Of course, if they answer you because the Germans consider it highly inappropriate to ask what their salary is.

According to statistics in 2018, the average monthly income in Germany is 2,950 euros. Net income, so what really gets is smaller. 33 percent less and totals approximately 1.945 euros. After that, one thousand-euro gap clears taxes and social security contributions.

The amount of taxes to be paid depends on the employer's tax rating in Germany. There are 1-6 rankings in Germany. The classification of certain factors depends on whether you are married or single, whether you have children or you live alone, whether you are a parent who only raise children, whether you are the family's primary feeder, whether you have certain tax statements.

What exactly does this mean?

Rusty 1: Consider a married man, the father of two children, who is the principal wage earner in the family. He earns 2,948 euros a month. His monthly salary thus belongs to average income in Germany. A 167-euro salary tax, 215 euros, or 7.5 per cent for health insurance, 274 euros, or 9.3 per cent for retirement, 36 euros, or 1.25 per cent for unemployment insurance and 45 euros, or 1.5 per cent for physical insurance. In the end, it actually receives a monthly salary of 2,209 euros.

Rusty 2: A single person, without children, receives the same monthly salary - 2,948 euros per gross month. But it has a higher tax rate and must pay even 22 euros in tax solidarity, from this one father and child is relieved. In the end, this person has a lower monthly salary, following the removal of tax and contributions, has 1,944 euros a month. If such a person is also a member of the Catholic or Protestant Church, that is reduced by another 40 euros.

Better - Paid vocations and Worse

The average income mentioned earlier is a statistical value, which does little to pay at certain branches. In some professions, employees earn a lot, others earn so little that they can hardly afford the month. First place among the best paid professions... without the staff responsibility occupied by the mayors. On average, 120 thousand euros a year are paid. Even specialized doctors are well paid, an average of 90 thousand euros a year. Among the many paid in Germany are employees in the financial and economic sector, fund managers and various managers in the firm.

The worst paid is aid work in gastronom, about two thousand euros gross a month. Few are paid out to the paluquers, waiters, among the worst professions paid are also the employees of Call Center, dentist assistants, and senior care staff. Even nurses have a relatively low monthly salary, between two thousand and 2,400 gross euros.

Minimum legal wage

Germany is part of countries that are designated by the Minimal Law. It is scheduled for 9,19 euros (November 2019). Luxembourg is the country with its lowest wage, 11.97 euros per hour. Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands and France are countries in the European Union that have the minimum wage higher than Germany. The lowest wage is Bulgaria at 1.72 euros, Latvia at 2.54 euros, Romania at 2.68 euros, Hungary at 2.69 euros and Croatia at 2.92 euros. This too is a minimum wage.

If you are not employed by contract and tax duties, but on the basis of the hotel - self - employed - you must take care of taxes and social insurance contributions. Here it is advisable to receive advice from the tax consultant because the tax declaration is one of the most difficult things to prepare in Germany.

One thing to know: With tax authorities in Germany, it's no joke. The legal tax rights in Germany is very complicated and only a specialist consultant can help lower taxes.

Rocks are on average high in Germany, but other factors must be seen in order to understand reality.

Higher than average, lower than Switzerland's salary

So are wages high in Germany? Given the prospects of many European countries, they are sometimes twice or higher than in some European countries. In Albania, for example, the average gross salary for a paid employee is approximately 400 euros, according to INSTAT 52,645 leks, statistics for the second quarter 2019, while in Kosovo in 2017, average salaries marked 527 euros according to the Kosovar Statistics Agency. In Croatia, the average salary marks 870 euros, near 6436 Kuna.

So the statistics show, that wages in Germany are higher than the European average, but lower than Switzerland, Luxembourg or Denmark. The numbers don't tell you everything, though. They must be seen in broader context. It should also be known, for example, that in 2017, the average monthly expenses of a common German family total 2.517 euros a month, with an average of 900 euros spent on apartment rent and side costs, lights, water, municipal services. If you have such additional information, you may find that you can better understand what your income is like in Germany and what is behind tax payments. / S/