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 an international comparison, 18 percent of Germans feel comfortable talking to friends about money. In Germany, one in five people feel more comfortable talking about money than about their job. In the U.S., one in four people feel less comfortable discussing money with friends than they do with colleagues. In France, one out of every four people feels more comfortable discussing their job than their salary.