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> I keep hearing how I'll just have to swallow a tiny salary compared to SV wages if I move to any EU country, Switzerland included. Did you check e.g. levels.
by tonfa 6y ago
> I keep hearing how I'll just have to swallow a tiny salary compared to SV wages if I move to any EU country, Switzerland included.
Did you check e.g. levels.fyi?
- ChuckNorris89 6y agoThat website is next to useless in most of europe. Too few data points and too much noise apart from a few big well known companies.
- tonfa 6y agoBut for the places with those well known companies it's a good way to check salaries across location. (Which should still be a proxy for overall market)
- ChuckNorris89 6y ago>Which should still be a proxy for overall market Unfortunately not true. Just because some FAANG in the area will be able to pay you €150k+ TC, doesn't mean all local companies will automatically try to match that. You might be surprised how wide the TC gap is between FAANG & Co. and local players who might laugh in your face if you ask for more than €80k. Simply put, most EU companies can't match such levels of pay but will have no shortage of talent.
- vecinu 6y agoI have and can validate its fairly accurate numbers for FAANG / SV salaries but not so much European ones. It also gets hairy once you compare pre-tax (US Salaries) with post-tax (EU salaries) and different costs of living. I use a combination of levels.fyi, Payscale/Glassdoor plus Numbeo / Nomadlist to keep running the numbers around how much I could save by moving elsewhere.