Which pays more, Hamburg or Munich?

The median advertised salary for each is in the table above, along with the 25th and 75th percentiles so you can see the spread rather than one number.

Which has more openings?

Both counts are live and computed at the same moment, so the comparison is like for like.

Postings are read from company career systems continuously; the age row shows how old the listings themselves are.

Side by side

Hamburg vs Munich

Pay is effectively the same — the medians sit under 1% apart. Demand is comparable on both sides. Hamburg is the more remote-friendly of the two, by 8.9%. Listings for Hamburg move faster — median age 28 days against 73.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Hamburg	Munich	Gap
Open postings	25,719	35,640	-9,921
Posted this week	2,313	1,219
Median salary	€61,000	€60,500	+€500
25th percentile	€48k	€48k
75th percentile	€75.5k	€75k
Salary disclosed	2.6%	3.3%
Remote share	12.8%	3.9%	+8.9pp
Median age of posting	28d	73d
Open over 60 days	37.2%	49.6%
Visa sponsorship	6.3%	24.5%

Pay

Pay distribution

Hamburg

€27k€106k

Munich

€27k€105k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Hamburg

just posted28d median90d+

Munich

just posted73d median90d+

Demand

What each side asks for

Hamburg — technologies

Spark

72.0%

Kubernetes

65.8%

59.6%

dbt

53.4%

Snowflake

47.2%

Docker

41.0%

Tableau

34.8%

Munich — technologies

Figma

72.0%

AWS

65.8%

Snowflake

59.6%

Tableau

53.4%

Docker

47.2%

Kubernetes

41.0%

Salesforce

34.8%

Hamburg — employers

Quarry Analytics

9.4%

Vantage Logistics

8.7%

Brightline Retail

8.0%

Beacon Robotics

7.2%

Meridian Software

6.5%

Tidewater Insurance

5.8%

Rivergate Media

5.1%

Munich — employers

Lakeshore Hospitality

9.4%

Solstice Biotech

8.7%

Kestrel Health

8.0%

Brightline Retail

7.2%

Aperture Labs

6.5%

Umbra Security

5.8%

Meridian Software

5.1%

More comparisons

Other Germany city comparisons

Berlin vs Hamburg Berlin vs Munich

Both sides are counted the same way on the same day, so the gap is comparable even where the absolute numbers move. Salary figures use only postings that publish a range — the disclosure rate is in the table because a median over 20% of a cohort is a weaker number than one over 70%.