What engineers earn, and what contractors charge.
23 responses so far, across 11 countries. Nothing is published yet. The first figures appear once a slice clears the threshold below.
Three groups, three different numbers. Employee pay and contractor rates are not the same quantity, so they are never averaged together. Which do you want?
Closest to publishing
Each group publishes on its own count. Salaries need 60 answers before a median means anything; contractor day rates need 25, because a day rate is a single negotiated price with none of the bonus, equity and thirteenth-month variance a salary carries.
- BelgiumContractors7 of 25, 18 to go
- United KingdomContractors3 of 25, 22 to go
- HungaryContractors1 of 25, 24 to go
- ItalyContractors1 of 25, 24 to go
- BelgiumEmployees2 of 60, 58 to go
- United KingdomEmployees2 of 60, 58 to go
This is how the bars move.
Nothing here is advertised anywhere and there is no budget behind it. Those bars fill because people send this to other engineers, which is a thirty-second job with a much better return than most.
whatweearn is an anonymous salary survey for engineers in Europe. Nine questions, about two minutes, and you find out what people with your job, level and country are actually paid. Your employer already knows that number. https://whatweearn.eu/
Take the whole thing
The dataset is CC BY 4.0. Every combination of country, level, contract, discipline, company size, industry and experience band that appears fewer than 5 times is withheld, cities are dropped entirely, experience is banded and pay is rounded to the nearest €500. That is what makes per-response rows publishable at all because a raw row is a cut of one, and releasing them verbatim would break the same promise the 60-response rule keeps.
The download appears once there are enough responses to release any rows.