As much as I like my vacations, I would rather prefer US salary over it.
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It seems to me that, as high as US salaries are, they arent that much higher compared to European salaries when you factor all this in, plus the face that a month of that work youre paid for youre OOO
Both will include full health benefits etc.
With 5 weeks paid vacation in DE and 2 weeks in US, that would be $170k for 50 weeks if work vs $80k for 47 weeks.
Not counting US taxes being lower and looking only at gross pay, that’s about $1.7K/week in DE vs $3.4K/week in the US.
So after correcting for vacation, US engineers make about twice German counterparts
And that's selecting for a particularly senior role. Most people are what that site calls "computer programmers", whose median is $93k.