> we're talking each month you pay total twice and a half as much as the employee sees BEFORE TAX. I'm in Paris and here how my salaries break down: Currently

> we're talking each month you pay total twice and a half as much as the employee sees BEFORE TAX. I'm in Paris and here how my salaries break down: Currently I'm at ~50K a year "Brut" (before taxes on the employee side), which means ~35K a year "Net" ("go home" salary). I'm costing ~75K per year to my employer in term of salary (before taxes on the employer side). My other taxes are around 6K per year. I'm an SRE/software engineer with ~8 years experience. I'm not sure ~75k is that expensive compared to other European countries, let alone Silicon Valley salaries.