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Agree, as a Bay Area SWE, health-care is not a problem as many companies give you very good insurance, HSA, dental and vision for free or with family (wife + 1
by spicyramen 6y ago
Agree, as a Bay Area SWE, health-care is not a problem as many companies give you very good insurance, HSA, dental and vision for free or with family (wife + 1 kid) 1K per month.
- crooked-v 6y ago'Bay Area SWE' is an outlier even for the tech industry.
- kaitai 6y ago1K per month = not a problem! hahahahaha! Ok, for a (male or lesbian, since you specify 'wife') Bay Area SWE, you're right. But do look at that election map and notice the scores of people living in the rest of the US, in large part voting against their own health-care interests but still. In Missouri the median income is around $55k. Putting $12k of that into health insurance (not health care, but insurance) is pretty hefty.
- martinald 6y agoYou do realise that $55k even with $12k insurance taken off ($43k "effective' median) is higher than any EU state, apart from maybe Luxembourg. And taxes will be significantly higher in EU states than MI (even if you are paying healthcare privately), which will further tilt it?
- distances 6y agoBut the US citizen will have to save for retirement and kids' potential university education out of the remaining part, correct? For such a middle class person Europe is likely to be better / more stable economically. Single software engineer will surely have it financially much better in the US though.