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FAANG salaries in the EU / UK can be nearly as high as in the US though, which in some locations does drive up the compensation for all SWEs.
by FartyMcFarter 6y ago
FAANG salaries in the EU / UK can be nearly as high as in the US though, which in some locations does drive up the compensation for all SWEs.
- MauranKilom 6y agoBased on StackOverflow dev survey, EU salaries are roughly 60% of what you get in the US. You'll be hard-pressed to find equivalent positions paying the same in both regions.
- cbg0 6y agoAre those 1:1 comparisons? I know typically in the US salaries advertised are not exactly take-home pay, but before tax amounts, and is some places in Europe salaries are advertised as take-home pay.
- MauranKilom 6y agoWell it'll never be 1:1 due to differences in health care etc., of course, but those were all before tax from what I understood. Not sure how companies advertising take-home pay would work when your tax rate depends on e.g. marital status (at least in Germany it could be off by maybe a factor of 2 in both directions), which country/region are you thinking of there?
- disgruntledphd2 6y agoThe salaries in London for FAANG are equivalent to about 60-70% of those in the US. The stock grants are typically smaller, also, though this is less true for software engineers. The one I used to work for had a real problem of developers leaving for the US on an internal transfer after 12 months, precisely because of the salaries.