I can only speak about a France here, but the salaries seems low because it's after most taxes. When you get 200k in US, you have to pay for your healthcare, pe

I can only speak about a France here, but the salaries seems low because it's after most taxes. When you get 200k in US, you have to pay for your healthcare, pension, etc... In France when you get 80k, which is a very high-end salary (~94% of the french are paid less than that), you still pay some taxes on it but the company already payed the healthcare, pension, 25 days of mandatory vacation, etc... All-in-All you get the same value, numbers are hardly comparable.