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In Europe, most people earn nowhere near 100k USD, and as you just said in USA the median wage is 30k USD. I'd still say Europe and most of the USA is "first w
by alexgmcm 6y ago
In Europe, most people earn nowhere near 100k USD, and as you just said in USA the median wage is 30k USD.
I'd still say Europe and most of the USA is "first world living standards".
- mam2 6y ago100k usd is 40k eur if you take out taxes..
- alexgmcm 6y agoWe also pay taxes in Europe. An engineer's pre-tax salary in Europe would be like 20-60k euros in the South/East and 30-80k in the North. The USA just has a lot more capital in tech so the demand for labor is a lot more robust. Europe has decent engineers but it's hard to command a high wage when there are a lot less companies competing for you and they have less capital to be able to pay you with.