Pretty normal yep. If you work in things fintech and / or are super senior then salary could be much higher. Overall this looks about right.
Remember that in the UK we have access to more public services and benefits etc. Americans pay more here for better or worse eg healthcare. Many Americans also seem to have to overwork from a European point of view, so you earn more but at a cost most of us wouldn't tolerate. Lack of holidays, long hours etc.
Not a judgement, just contextualising the differences and explaining why focusing solely on pay as a metric is a bit misleading.
Sure. Overall you probably end up with more money in your pocket. I don't think many would dispute that this is an upside to living in America for an engineer. My point is that money as the sole metric is a bit pointless and reductive.
Just to give you an example, I work for a tiny software firm of 40 people and my cost for the Cadillac of health insurance is 3$ a month. Each doctor's visit is 40$ but besides that everything is covered. I make 155k USD a year.
Yeah, it was one of the main reasons I signed up with my company. They don't pay the most but they care for us more than any comapny I've worked for in my life.
My original point was about avoiding the reductive view of comparing one country against another solely by how much cash one takes home for a given job.
Just on healthcare, did you know your per capita spending is 2 to 3 times higher?
Remember that in the UK we have access to more public services and benefits etc. Americans pay more here for better or worse eg healthcare. Many Americans also seem to have to overwork from a European point of view, so you earn more but at a cost most of us wouldn't tolerate. Lack of holidays, long hours etc.
Not a judgement, just contextualising the differences and explaining why focusing solely on pay as a metric is a bit misleading.