Work-life balance and purpose, doing something meaningful through work – for many young professionals these are still important criteria when choosing a career. In times of double-digit inflation rates, however, the monetary aspect also comes into focus again: When everything is so expensive, not every job feeds its husband or wife, let alone a family.

The StepStone salary report 2023 is therefore also attracting a lot of attention from a monetary point of view. It is the largest report of its kind in the German-speaking world and thus creates transparency for employees that they could only dream of before.

If you take all this data together, a normal person in Germany currently earns 43,800 euros gross per year. In an occupational group, on the other hand, it is 93,800 euros.