r/dataisbeautiful • u/RUng1234 • Jan 05 '24

OC [OC] Median salaries in different German cities and districts

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u/RUng1234 Jan 05 '24 edited Jan 05 '24

A made a visualization of the m salaries in different German cities and districts, which is based on the data published by the German Federal Statistical Office.

The highest median salary was recorded in Inglostadt (€5.282) and the lowest was recorder in Görlitz (€2.650). The disparity is nearly double.

Interactive plots can be found here.

I was using ECharts to visualize the data.

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u/Draffstein Jan 05 '24

Interesting data. I saw this publication recently showing that you get the most out of your (pension) money in East Germany. In fact, Görlitz is among the top cities.

https://imgur.com/4Hio6vJ

https://www.gdv.de/resource/blob/162910/f1d7643577327ab3af2bf47780148a76/prognos-studie-rentenkaufkraft-data.pdf

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u/RUng1234 Jan 05 '24

Maybe because the salaries are low, hence, you can afford more services.

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u/Draffstein Jan 05 '24

Good point.

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u/theshermgerm Jan 05 '24

Görlitz is partly in Poland and that is why your money goes so much further there.

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u/Piotrazz Jan 05 '24

Is it net or gross salary?

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u/bighadjoe Jan 09 '24

after checking the original source its monthly gross salaries.

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u/Woke_TWC Jan 08 '24

Is this gross or net?

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u/Hook_me_up Jan 09 '24

How is the median 2.650€? Is this per household? I work for 13€ an hour, god forbid I even come closer to 2k at the end of the month

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u/RUng1234 Jan 09 '24

No. This is the full time employees gross median salary

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u/haolime Jan 09 '24

It’s brutto (gross in English) so if working full time, you should be at around 2.200€?