Senior people definitely make less than this in europe. Unless you're taking about large corp in london.

Pretty sure in big tech hubs like London, Amsterdam, Dublin, senior engineers make at least this much. Probably more. I can only offer my experience from London, not sure about other places but for sure there you can make over 100k as senior engineer.

Oh. But then we're not talking about equivalent levels of senior. Senior in the US can be reached in 2 years.

$80k is just under €70k, which is very possible for senior engineers in Berlin.

Idk I'm in NL and senior managers make this easily.

But in most Western Europe, you've got health coverage, unemployment and also retirement is included. Plus cheap and good public transit so you don't have to pay for a ca

> retirement is included

I’m not holding my breath for my European government retirement benefit to actually be useful in thirty years, to be honest.

Those SF-based servers are getting every one of benefits.

Engineers outside of American tech centers are generally highly underpaid.