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Re:Software Engineering Salaries in Europe vs. the United St... by tribaal on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @11:03AM (#28222030)
For software engineers it's not unheard of, but that will be at banks (in specific cases), or FAANG (who have offices in Zurich, typically)

EDIT: I'm a Swiss software engineer if that wasn't clear. I don't make that much though unfortunately :)

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Re:Software Engineering Salaries in Europe vs. the United St... by city41 on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @11:07AM (#28222099)
Cool, thanks for sharing. It's nice to hear salaries like that are not limited to SV.
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Re:Software Engineering Salaries in Europe vs. the United St... by tribaal on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @11:13AM (#28222216)
It's really not the norm though, to be clear. 500k-1M is really outliers (senior staff engineer with 20 years career in a private bank etc...)

Most of the jobs are "normal bay area" salaries, but cost of living in Switzerland is as high or worse as San Fransisco, roughly.

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