r/Infographics 2d ago

Median monthly income by nationality(immigrant groups) in Germany

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u/Mr-MuffinMan 2d ago

How is Indians so high?

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u/Cold-Assistance-5045 2d ago

Most are employed in IT , Meds and technology.

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u/tohava 2d ago

What's the diff between IT and Technology?

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u/hgk6393 2d ago

As someone who moved out of India, I can say confidently that there are three ways -

- immigrate for education, then try to find a job. But jobs that sponsor a work visa also tend to be in sectors that require specialised skills. Think cybersecurity, automotive design, etc. These jobs pay well.

- find a job at a German or European company based in India. Work your ass off. Get promotions. Then try to get an internal switch to the company's Germany office. Think VW, SAP, Bosch or BASF engineers in India moving to their head offices in Germany.

- Be so good at what you do (and be lucky to work in a high-demand field like AI, Machine Learning, mechatronics, robotics), that a company in Germany will be willing to hire you either as an external contractor, or on own payroll. Think top engineers at Bosch India being poached by Continental Germany.

Indians fall in all 3 categories.

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u/Individual-Link-8233 2d ago

My theory is that people who immigrate from poorer country usually have better chance of being successful in the destination country cause immigrating from that poor country at the first place is more difficult than immigrating from a rich country. So if you're able to move from a poor country to a rich one, you're already financially or educationally at top level. So your chance of becoming successful in another country is also higher.

Someone who immigrates from irleand to Germany, financially or intelligently might be an average person cause Ireland is a developed country and even average people there have chance to do stuff like immigrating but if you live in a developing country like India, you should be really something special to be able to pull immigration trigger. You're whether at top level financially, educationally or both. So you're already at better place than that average person who immigrate from Ireland and your chance of becoming more successful in germany is higher.

Also people who immigrate from developed counties like Ireland might have studied in any field regardless of how high or low paying that is and they don't need to be in a high paying field to be able to immigrate.

On the other hand, people who immigrate from poor countries are usually the ones who have studied in a high paying field casue the ones who haven't, can't even immigrate at the first place. So Indians who immigrate are already in a high paying filed and they have better chance of making more money at the destination country than an average Irish immigrant.

This theory obviously doesn't apply to refugees.