There is increasing bifurcation in career paths and the returns to them in the engineering community, and increasingly it appears to be severe enough that not only do the sides having difficulty empathizing with each other, they affirmatively believe the other side doesn't exist.
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I believe this perception that salaries in the US are far higher than Europe is partly how taxes are calculated. In Sweden for example the salary stated in your contract is after the company pays tax on it (but before your income tax) Plus of course cost of living differences
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I haven't ran the numbers but comparing Bay area salaries is kinda pointless because of ridiculous living costs, but comparing say Stockholm to New York I don't think the salaries after tax are much lower Taxes for stocks suck in Sweden though so few companies give stock options
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Who are they and more importantly where are they advertised?
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To be honest we have Switzerland and Norway in Europe. They usually pay rates comparable to Silicon Valley. And Swiss taxes are incredibly low
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Those exists, sure, it's just an order of magnitude rarer. What I mean is that the negotiation headroom one has being a 90th percentile engineer is way smaller in Europe than US.
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