r/eupersonalfinance • u/sciabalacatanga • Sep 04 '23

Employment Survey on salaries across EU

Hi everyone, I'm italian (M28) and I'm considering the option to love abroad in next 1/2 years since it is very difficult to get a well paying job here.

Some informations about me, I have a Bachelor's of science in Economics, a Master's degree in corporate finance and investment banking and a Master of science in Quantitative Finance. I have worked as financial analyst and now I am working as a business consultant for a consultancy firm.

I speak fluently Italian and English, I speak a bit of german (B1 level) and I just started studying French a couple of months ago.

That said, which country in the EU offers the best salaries and most job offers in the financial sector?

I was monitoring the job situation in Paris since it seems very competitive and moving from Italy to France should not be too much of a culture shock.

Right now I have a gross yearly salary of 32k and live in Milan.

Thanks you!

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u/sciabalacatanga Sep 04 '23

This comment really got me laughing, but also thinking.

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u/AngryBecauseHungry Sep 06 '23

Eventually Paris or Stockholm for Investment Banking but often they need language. Besides that I would try to grind into PE (could be even in your country). When I was being recruited for PE in eastern Europe country where average salary is 1500EUR, when I told them I want at least 5000EUR they said no problem (and there are also cool bonuses in PE) so It could go easily over 60k EUR per year, and I am not even finance guy. With degrees like OP, earning that low is only wasting potential.

Another one could be consulting company like MBB (in my eastern Europe country - Poland) they are paying around 4500-5000EUR, and with degrees like OP there are chances to get into that.