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Pretty normal yep. If you work in things fintech and / or are super senior then salary could be much higher. Overall this looks about right. Remember that in
by jmfldn 4y ago
Pretty normal yep. If you work in things fintech and / or are super senior then salary could be much higher. Overall this looks about right.
Remember that in the UK we have access to more public services and benefits etc. Americans pay more here for better or worse eg healthcare. Many Americans also seem to have to overwork from a European point of view, so you earn more but at a cost most of us wouldn't tolerate. Lack of holidays, long hours etc.
Not a judgement, just contextualising the differences and explaining why focusing solely on pay as a metric is a bit misleading.
- VirusNewbie 4y agoI don’t think American engineers pay more for healthcare at all. It’s almost all covered.
- jmfldn 4y agoWe pay zero is the point.
- junofan 4y agoI mean by that standard we pay basically zero—employer covers the premiums.
- jmfldn 4y agoYou could argue that's still paying for it and the premium will be high compared to equivalent national insurance payments here.
- xeromal 4y agoJust to give you an example, I work for a tiny software firm of 40 people and my cost for the Cadillac of health insurance is 3$ a month. Each doctor's visit is 40$ but besides that everything is covered. I make 155k USD a year.
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- dahfizz 4y agoThe point is that the average American dev takes home a lot more cash than European devs. Whether e.g. healthcare premiums comes out of my paycheck separately or is paid via higher taxes is just accounting.
- jmfldn 4y agoMy original point was about avoiding the reductive view of comparing one country against another solely by how much cash one takes home for a given job. Just on healthcare, did you know your per capita spending is 2 to 3 times higher? https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm
- generalizations 4y agoOnce you add public services into the equation, you should also account for the lower taxes in the us.
- jmfldn 4y agoSure. Overall you probably end up with more money in your pocket. I don't think many would dispute that this is an upside to living in America for an engineer. My point is that money as the sole metric is a bit pointless and reductive.