skilled workers don't make a buck in France as an engineer, you choose to stay in France for the values, for the quality of life, for your family, or from some

skilled workers don't make a buck in France as an engineer, you choose to stay in France for the values, for the quality of life, for your family, or from some kind of patriotism after having had free college. And you go the USA for money ! Median earnings for engineering graduates is 36k/year in most schools. After direct 'contributions', you're lucky to get about 2000k€ /month (on which you have to save for other income taxes for the end of the year) My first engineering job, during COVID, was paid 20k€/year ! (bellow the legal minimum, but it was declared as an internship) It's far from the 6 figure salaries in cali ! Medical doctors should do about 6000€/month too. Companies in here don't care about hiring skilled workers. They want cheap workers, because they have no long term R&D.