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Does anyone have any insight into general salary ranges in the various European countries for art director / tech A.D. roles?
Europe is a very varied area and salary expectations represent this. So saying anything about europe at large is impossible. In general cost of living does not reflect to how much you get paid, or what your quality of living will be. The supports structures around you vary wildly. So i can only speak for Finland, and Sweden.
salary is about 2300-3200 euros a month. Of wich you pay 30-45% of taxes (an taxables, the taxrate is directly propotional to your salary, if you can become parter as that part of income only pays 22% of tax) abut dependinghow you count it. However that includes health services (excluding dental wich is only partially covered) and quite much subvented prices for daycare, and no cost for education (at any level). Living cost in helsinki is about as high as any living cost gets.
Sweeden is about the same a bit lower salaries for starters, and a bit unsafer. Mostly the same. However leading in sweeden is very complex as you have no boss role over people and decisioning making is often by consensus.
In general theres no middle management in norther europe since it has been eliminated allmost totaly. everybody is middle management in sense.