Before COVID, companies in Paris were offering me 40-50k for a mid-level engineer, no WFH, maybe they'd pay for your commute.
After COVID, similar companies (I talked to around 10) based in Paris were offering 90k + equity (BSPCE), full remote, desk/chair/monitor paid for, lunch card (25 euros/day for a max of 180/mo), insurance, fancy off-site meetings fully paid for, and more
Still not competitive with foreign companies that hire remotely with a French entity, but not nearly as bad as it used to be.
Did it change in the entire France tech sector or did you simply find a much better company than your old one? Correlation!= Cazualisation.
Anyway, I'm glad if it changed in France but it didn't where I live (Austria) where the market is depressing and they're still paying 2020 wage brackets. Europe is very diverse.
Before Covid, it was 40-50k in Paris and 30-35k in smaller cities.
Now i'm way north of 60k and i live on the coast in a medium-sized city (our population doubles each long weekend and during summer). And i have my transport costs reimbursed, as well as twice as much paid training.
They were CDI and English-speaking jobs (even when the company was French, they'd have German/Spanish/Italian offices and insist everyone speaks English)
Before COVID, companies in Paris were offering me 40-50k for a mid-level engineer, no WFH, maybe they'd pay for your commute.
After COVID, similar companies (I talked to around 10) based in Paris were offering 90k + equity (BSPCE), full remote, desk/chair/monitor paid for, lunch card (25 euros/day for a max of 180/mo), insurance, fancy off-site meetings fully paid for, and more
Still not competitive with foreign companies that hire remotely with a French entity, but not nearly as bad as it used to be.
I hear it's similar in Berlin, too.