Comment by jmfldn
4 years ago
I guess this is a Silicon Valley megacorp right? Who could afford those wages?! Over here in the UK, if you're absolutely shit hot, principal engineer type material, I guess £150k + is common. Maybe more if you're a true elite engineer, but US wages are surreal. As others point out though, we get a lot of great public services, state pensions and so on. All a tradeoff.
In what world are you valuing good public services at like 200k a year?
Regardless, even in Australia wages for tech workers are higher than most of Europe.
Europeans are truly in denial about what they’re getting. Nationalism is a great blindfold.
I'm not valuing it at 200k. You're basing that number on some extreme outlier 500k wage that was plucked out of the air. Hardly the norm in the US.
Fwiw, I'll grant that the US is ahead in big tech but I'd never move there. The quality of life is pretty poor compared to wealthy European countries. I've spent a lot of time there and I'm sorry to say, you seem a bit delusional to us over here. Life is hard in the US to many people here and kind of uncivilised in terms of social safety nets, inequality and any number of other metrics.
500k is not an extreme outlier wage.
My wife and I both work in tech, outside of SF. We make around a 200k premium each to not work in Europe.
You can look at ‘any number of other metrics’, but one of them isn’t going to be culture. European culture is dead and ossified.
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