On: My Salary History

[jmfldn]

We pay zero is the point.

[xeromal → jmfldn]

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.

[JohnFen → xeromal]

Damn, I want your health plan. Mine is more expensive, and it sounds like not as good.

[xeromal → JohnFen]

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.

[peyton → jmfldn]

I mean by that standard we pay basically zero—employer covers the premiums.

[jmfldn → peyton]

You could argue that's still paying for it and the premium will be high compared to equivalent national insurance payments here.

[dahfizz → jmfldn]

The point is that the average American dev takes home a lot more cash than European devs.

Whether e.g. healthcare premiums comes out of my paycheck separately or is paid via higher taxes is just accounting.

[jmfldn → dahfizz]

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?

https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm