That's another thing that reduces the effective wage in europe: it's much more common to go to grad school (for engineers) Effectively no one in the US gets a

That's another thing that reduces the effective wage in europe: it's much more common to go to grad school (for engineers) Effectively no one in the US gets a master's in CS, other than immigrants who get higher priority and possibility different visas (think like O-1) with said degree, so it makes sense for them. There are certainly PhD students, but they tend to genuinely want to do research IME rather than just do more school for more money down the line.