> but their devs make far less and they lack any superstar tech giants These two are related. You can’t have high salaries without a competitive market full of

> but their devs make far less and they lack any superstar tech giants These two are related. You can’t have high salaries without a competitive market full of money sloshing around. A company making $300k/employee can never pay as much as a company making $1mm/employee. Even if it wants to. I wonder how much brain drain the EU tech scene experiences by people working for US tech companies. Either remotely, via local offices, or plain old moving to USA.