On: X ordered to pay €550k to Irish employee fired aft...

[xenonite]

Well, to me as a European, this feels like a very high number already.

[emmet → xenonite]

Wages in America must be truly incredible for this to seem normal. I know so many full time developers on a tenth of that.

[cr1895 → emmet]

>Wages in America must be truly incredible for this to seem normal

They indeed are for a very small subset of people, who are overrepresented on this website.

I really don't think you can generalize that wages o/a are incredible in the US.

[jncfhnb → cr1895]

The wages in the US are incredible while still being much less than 500k

[janalsncm → emmet]

Median wage is only about $50k in the US. Tech compensation is just really high.

Also note that salaries are rarely that high even in tech. Usually a big part of compensation is stock grants which are taxed differently.

[rsynnott → emmet]

This is someone who’s worked for Twitter, which at least historically paid Big Tech(tm)-ish wages, for over a decade, and is in a pretty senior position.