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The article quotes the average starting salary at google to be $125,000. After converting that into GBP (for the UK where I live) you get to 77,613. Europeans
by michaelochurch 14y ago
The article quotes the average starting salary at google to be $125,000. After converting that into GBP (for the UK where I live) you get to 77,613.
Europeans quote salaries (usually monthly) after taxes, and Americans use pre-tax numbers. They also pay a higher tax rate (and get more, like real health coverage). So when you hear a European say that he makes 4000 Euros per month, that's an after-tax number and it's actually comparable to about $80,000 pre-tax salary in the US.
- to3m 14y agoUK salaries are always stated gross. BTW while I am correcting people, I will also point out that the UK is very rarely described as "European", though nobody would (or can) deny that it's part of Europe, geographically speaking.
- grimlck 14y agoThat is not the case in the UK.
- bowyakka 14y agoNo that will be gross values, the statement about ~77K being on the high end for the UK is right. Easy experiment I went to jobserve.com a well known UK programmer job site and did a search for the word "programmer" its breakdown of offered gross salaries is this Not stated on job 39 Below £15K 1 £15K-£20K 28 £20K-£25K 79 £25K-£30K 173 £30K-£40K 286 £40K-£50K 247 £50K-£75K 166 £75K-£100K 27 Above £100K 11 Suggests a bell curve to me with the median being £35000
- jk4930 14y agoNot the case in Germany.