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[devereaux]

A 70k salary on which the employee will see something like 50% taken out of the 70/12=5.83k paycheck every month.

The employee will see something less than 3k arrive every month, while it costs the company 150k per year.

This explains why you may not get the best and the brightests. (with these 30k per year you can fund you education, healthcare and unemployment)

Also, the cost of living in Paris may be less than NYC, SF, DC, but I think that's about it.