Salary expectation: what to ask for in Germany
Choose a job group and your years of experience, and if you like a region and a company size. You get a market reference from the Stepstone Gehaltsreport 2026, an ask range above it and what that range pays net. No account needed. It is worked out in your browser, and what you choose is not sent or saved.
Optional. Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen appear as a state and as a city, because the report gives each list its own medians.
There is no Turkish estimate yet, because there is no reliable salary dataset this site may use; the Turkish salary calculator converts a Turkish salary between gross and net.
Choose a job group and an experience band to see the reference.
How is the reference worked out?
It starts from the median yearly gross pay of your job group in the Stepstone Gehaltsreport 2026, the 2026 salary report of the job site Stepstone. The report covers more than 1.3 million pay records from January 2022 to November 2025, standardised to a 40-hour week with bonuses included. The tool scales that median by the ratio of the median for your experience band, region and company size to the median of everyone in the report; a region or company size you leave open is left out. The report publishes each breakdown on its own, not crossed with the others, so the ratios are multiplied as if they were independent.
The reference is shown as a range because it is estimated by multiplying factors: each factor beyond the job group widens it by about 5%, at most 15%, and both ends are rounded to whole thousands. The ask range runs from the low end of that range to 12% above its high end, so the least you would accept sits near the bottom of the figure you name. The job ad reader gives similar advice in the salary negotiation playbook it shows with an ad.
The net of both ends comes from the site's German gross to net calculator for 2026, with tax class I, no church tax, no children, aged 23 or over, statutory health insurance with the average additional contribution, and the federal state of the region you chose. Open the result there to change any of these.
What does it not do?
It gives a market reference, not a prediction of any offer: it knows nothing about the employer, the exact role, your skills or how pay has moved since the report. The report publishes medians only, so the tool cannot say how widely pay spreads around them; the width of the range reflects the multiplied factors, not that spread. There is no Turkish estimate yet, because there is no reliable salary dataset this site may use. What you choose stays in your browser; only an anonymous count that the tool was used is recorded.