Outside the US, they won't. Working at Daimler for 10 years, you don't clear 80000 EUR if not moving in a managerial tier, and even then you'll have to move qui

Outside the US, they won't. Working at Daimler for 10 years, you don't clear 80000 EUR if not moving in a managerial tier, and even then you'll have to move quite far up. (Starting nowadays, you'll have 50000 EUR starting salary as a junior developer.) And this is before taxes; even with 2 children, I'll pay upwards of 40 percent income tax in addition to 19 percent mandatory health insurance. SV is a fantasy world.