Timeline for How to match EU income to US salary?
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| Oct 11, 2019 at 11:08 | answer | added | gnasher729 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 2, 2019 at 2:23 | answer | added | JonathanReez | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 18, 2018 at 1:50 | history | edited | dda | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 17, 2018 at 20:23 | answer | added | Nauris Krūmiņš | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 28, 2018 at 11:36 | answer | added | GrumpyParisExpat | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 20, 2017 at 15:02 | answer | added | S. Hanson | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 24, 2016 at 14:02 | vote | accept | zmo | ||
| Jul 10, 2016 at 20:24 | answer | added | Douglas Held | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 16, 2015 at 18:40 | answer | added | benroth | timeline score: 7 | |
| May 4, 2015 at 7:25 | comment | added | oberhamsi | are the health care packages comparable? in US everyone seems to have custom plans about which I don't know much, whereas in EU you get at least the standard package (could still be the same for good jobs like IT professionals. i don't know). vacation days could more easily be factored into the calculation (e.g. one month less pay for the ~20 days off). | |
| Apr 4, 2015 at 8:45 | comment | added | zmo | As the Euro has fallen to be around the same price as the dollar, the heuristic formula I'm giving might need some adjustments :-/ | |
| Jan 24, 2015 at 18:26 | comment | added | Ashwin Balamohan | Arguably, "Western Europe" is not that much more vague than comparing portions of the US with vastly different costs of living, income taxes, and average incomes | |
| Dec 30, 2014 at 11:44 | history | edited | zmo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 26, 2014 at 14:08 | vote | accept | zmo | ||
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| Apr 25, 2014 at 15:38 | comment | added | Ian Ringrose | Houses in the US outside of large towns don’t go up in value like the UK and cost a lot more to maintain, so when looking at housing costs be careful. (They are not built to last as long) | |
| Apr 25, 2014 at 15:37 | comment | added | Ian Ringrose | Cost of living very much depends on children and their ages etc. Also if you care about other people you may feel a duty in the US to give a lot more money to charities to make up for what the state does not do. | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 14:27 | comment | added | Gala | @vartec Specifying a country is not overly specific, more specific questions are closed all the time for being too vague. In fact, your own answer is much much more specific than that, you are just assuming it's somehow representative, which it might not be. | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 14:06 | comment | added | zmo | That's why I'm not asking for my exact situation, but more for a broad rule of thumb when it comes to get a reference that helps to compare positions in firms in EU and in US. | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 13:54 | comment | added | vartec | "Western Europe" might be vague for exact comparison, but definitely answerable in more generic sense. Generic answers are generally preferred on StackExchange, as they'll serve wider audience. | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 13:33 | comment | added | zmo | Well, actually I'm living in France working for a UK firm, so my situation is definitely not simple :-) | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 13:26 | comment | added | Gala | Following your own figures, there is a 17 percentage points difference between Germany and France! Are you talking about 50k€ in France or in Germany? It's certainly not the same. | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 13:23 | comment | added | zmo | @GaëlLaurans I precised western europe by being the few countries I know about, which have a gross/net ratio of 70% (77% in France, 60% in Germany, about 70% in UK…). My question is about having a reference to have in mind when I'll be negociating my jobs with my employer when I'll move from EU to US. So as Vince suggests, indeed the constant could be the "take home", I'm pretty sure cost of living has an influence. | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 12:52 | answer | added | Vince | timeline score: 13 | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 12:51 | answer | added | vartec | timeline score: 17 | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 12:34 | comment | added | Gala | @Vince All true but you do need to get a sense of what your take-home pay is going to be, too. It's only then that you adjust that based on the cost of living. | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 12:18 | comment | added | Vince | You want to match in terms of cost of living or in terms of similar job? In the first case, I do not see the link with salaries, what you would want to know is the cost of living in the US. In the second case, I don't see why there needs to be a match between countries: only the US job market matters. Overall, I think you need to clarify your question and I am not even sure it is in the scope of this site. | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 12:00 | answer | added | michael_teter | timeline score: 26 | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 11:50 | comment | added | Gala | “Western Europe” is meaningless in this respect, there are huge differences even between, say, France and Germany (for a given salary, take-home pay is much lower in Germany because in France a big part of the contributions to the healthcare and pension systems are not included in the before-tax salary as defined in contracts/negotiations but paid on top of it by the employer, income taxes are very different too). | |
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