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Re:Why Lichess will always be free by MauranKilom on Friday April 23, 2021 @08:55AM (#26914253)
Well it'll never be 1:1 due to differences in health care etc., of course, but those were all before tax from what I understood.

Not sure how companies advertising take-home pay would work when your tax rate depends on e.g. marital status (at least in Germany it could be off by maybe a factor of 2 in both directions), which country/region are you thinking of there?

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Re:Why Lichess will always be free by disgruntledphd2 on Saturday April 24, 2021 @05:06AM (#26923477)
The salaries in London for FAANG are equivalent to about 60-70% of those in the US. The stock grants are typically smaller, also, though this is less true for software engineers.

The one I used to work for had a real problem of developers leaving for the US on an internal transfer after 12 months, precisely because of the salaries.

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