Mind, I’m not using the word “average” derogatorily, I’m referring to good senior developers that simply don’t follow trends, don’t do leetcode and don’t spent too much time chasing pay rises (I unfortunately had to, because of my family’s economic issues and because I live in the UK, where you either own property or you can’t live like a civilized man).

I know people working for BMW, VW, Bosch, NXP, Infineon (some in Germany and some in Austria) earning that much. Some do security, others embedded, others CRUD stuff in Go or C#.

I don’t know if these jobs require Germans to follow the German corsus honorum (Gymnasium, BSc, MSc) and so are not accessible to those that attended a Realschule (foreigners seem to be exempted).