Salaries are pre-tax in the US as well. People do earn $200k - it is just much much more rare in the UK than in the Bay Area - especially with the pound as weak

Salaries are pre-tax in the US as well. People do earn $200k - it is just much much more rare in the UK than in the Bay Area - especially with the pound as weak as it is nowadays. However, glassdoor does put the total comp of a Senior Software Engineer at google at £181k - https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Salary/Google-Senior-Software-Engineer-Salaries-E9079_D_KO7,31.htm https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Salary/Google-Senior-Software-En...