Desired salary in the interview: How to answer the question correctly. “You don’t talk about money, you have money,” says a well-known German proverb.
In Germany, one in two Germans feel comfortable talking to international friends about money – or maybe we do, says Klarna, a payment and shopping service provider. If you mention a crooked number as your desired salary, you might get 62,500 euros as a counteroffer. At 65,000 euros, the classic counteroffer would be 60,000 euro.