> I guess the difference is that the compensation levels in IT here are not, and were never, close to the stratospheric levels as in the US. Apart from maybe s

> I guess the difference is that the compensation levels in IT here are not, and were never, close to the stratospheric levels as in the US. Apart from maybe some few jobs in Switzerland I don't think anywhere else in the world is even close to the stratospheric levels of tech salaries in the USA...