What imho matters more is culture. There is less of a salary, but a culture of safety and stability. However, this is not for everyone: While you can be more s

What imho matters more is culture. There is less of a salary, but a culture of safety and stability. However, this is not for everyone: While you can be more sure of keeping your job in rough times, you can also be sure that the lazy idiot 2 desks over will keep his job. And you can be sure that any change will be resisted because change is seen as inherently bad and threatening, and reasons will be found to shoot down your new-fangled fancy ideas. YMMV, to each his own, etc.