We 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 l

We 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.