Obviously people look at Bay Area or Seattle salaries and see people that make $350k+ total comp or whatever insane numbers they are. But even in second and th

Obviously people look at Bay Area or Seattle salaries and see people that make $350k+ total comp or whatever insane numbers they are. But even in second and third-tier places, it's relatively easy for a software person or even just a vaguely tech-adjacent role to make over $100k. I'm way, way out at the very edge of the exurban zone of Boston, and that's where I am, and my fiancé who is a non-technical project manager at a tech company is right behind me. Typically the comeback from UK or German tech workers is that they have government health care and benefits, but they make half of what I make, pay higher taxes, and I have 100% paid employer insurance, four or five weeks of vacation, paternity leave, work maybe 35 hours a week, etc. Europeans (and also Canadians) are wildly underpaid for their abilities.