North of $70K is still a ways away from $100K+ and I'd love to see which companies we're talking about here because that's not the news that reaches me from Spain. Rather the opposite.
Even if life is a little more expensive in Europe, you don’t need as much emergency savings as in the US.
In Belgium, almost every white collar job has a company car included, since it's much much cheaper than for an individual to buy one.
Where in the US? It's a massive country with a huge regional variation in cost of living.