Pay for same $100k Job: USA vs EU
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Now let's flip it! I make 2600€ before taxes and deductions in Germany. I live with my parents and after taxes, I take home.. 1700€. I don't own a car and I can get by commuting and entertainment stuff. I have 30 vacations days minimum per year. I work 6 hours per day, two days home office. I chip in 350€ every month for expenses, so 1200-1300€ of savings every month. Healthcare is "free". I can call in sick 3 calendar days consecutively without a writ from the doctor, just because I want to.
I've lived on my own for short bits and time and here is from what I know looking at rent and other things - alone, I'd be spending 900-1200€ a month depending on how the food is I want to eat and how big my apartment is, plus some extra maybe because of obscene energy costs right now.
I don't think there is any job like that in the US, maybe if you run your own company.
I think the tl;dr's is this: It's better to be poorer to mid-income in a rich Euro country, and better to be rich in the US.
I think accounting for everything, even on this level the US sounds better after reading your comment. I'm trying to become a freelancer (funnily it's with webdesign) and honestly, it's such a huge pain in the ass to do it here, it's crazy. Meanwhile in the US that would be a million times simpler.
OP's whole calculation is retarded, he stick in taxes that don't exist and can't do math for shit. He also ignore the fact that the average US worker works twice as much time as their EU colleges, of course you're gonna make more money in America then, because you sell more of your time.
You're basically forced to live with your parents with no car. And thats a good lifestyle? Thats how poor americans live. It's not really a way to ever get ahead. You're spinning your wheels economically. For 2000$ a month take home I can work like 2 days a week too.
But now I'm sincerely interested to see the counterpoint from an American who thinks it is better in his country.