I should've clarified that I did indeed mean euros. The CEO for example owns a very large home in the most affluent part in the city. the CMO drives a new Tesl

I should've clarified that I did indeed mean euros. The CEO for example owns a very large home in the most affluent part in the city. the CMO drives a new Tesla and has a villa that's about a 30 minute drive away from our capital city. A 100k salary is not insane here, there are obviously people making more as well. Those are usually startup founders building something on loaned money or celebrities. Im living in one of the larger cities, it takes me 10 minutes to drive to the city centrum, so it's a pretty decent location. I pay under 700 euros for 65 square meters with our own sauna. I'm roughly spending 25% of my income on rent for two people. So, the cost of living is obviously a lot lower here, even if our salaried don't look exactly comparable. You can stretch a 1 million turnover to cover for 10 programmers and tech workers easily instead of getting just one senior developer from the Bay Area :)