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I think Americans also are quite delusional about how low the European salaries are. Getting six figures in Europe isn't particularly hard anymore.

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Tech salaries in Europe are a joke. The median IT salary in Germany is less than what I'm paid in India. That's in absolute dollar terms. Factor in the difference in cost of living and the disparity becomes comical.

Ah, that is why all TCS, Infosys and Wipro folks I work with, rather get a way to stay in Germany than go back home, what a set of fouls giving up on such salaries.

Right, because it's not like there are FAAG development centres or a home grown startup ecosystem in India. Oh, wait.

The fact that you work with WITCH companies says more about your situation than anything else, TBH.

Right, because it's not like there are FAAG development centres or a home grown startup ecosystem in Europe. Oh, wait.

The fact that you have expressed prejudice against people in WITCH companies says more about your situation than anything else, TBH.

What are WITCH companies?

https://aitechtrend.com/the-indian-witch-companies-redefinin...

> The Fall of US FAANG

I didn't realise they fell.

I am European: our wages are much, much lower than our American tech counterparts, without taxes double, with taxes we're on average making a third of them. And that's same cost of living.

It's absolutely not the same cost of living.

I don't know where you're living but in Copenhagen, yes it is, 100% the same COL as LA or Seattle.

Copenhagen is probably one of the most expensive city in Europe and hardly representative of the continent as a whole. Even then, a quick Google search estimates that cost of live in Copenhagen is 15-25% lower than Seattle/LA, without even accounting for the absurd american healthcare costs.

Europe is not one country. I live in Denmark and some of the things I have witnessed in (eastern) Germany almost felt 3rd worldish.

Probably as hard as getting $200k in the States though... "Six figures" just aren't what they used to be.

Yes but what percentage of that ends up getting taxed?

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