I think this is a great salary in the UK!

From the perspective of a french dude, 90k£ is something like 101k€, which is an INSANELY good salary.

For comparison, i'm actually paid 25k€ with 2 year of experience (Junior software developper), and a really good salary in this field in France is something around 48k€

Last point, the minimum salary in France is 1.5k€ per month, around 18k€

I believe it widely change depending on the country.

You should at least compare it to Amazon UK to get a better idea of the difference.

He lives in Europe. That's how it works here, we don't understand it either.

It's pretty easy. US has scarcity via VISA scarcity.

US companies have a smaller hiring pool and more competiveness.

US companies in Europe exploit workers from all around the world at the lowest price they can and call it "market salary" and "that's how things are".

Then they'll rave about fighting inequality and "the wage gap" but no one will address that in the US you have double the salaries for usually less taxes.

And no, what is done with those taxes is generally not good enough nor "way better than in the US" to justify the travesty in terms of high taxes.

Housing crisis' abound and landlord classes and politicians are one, protecting their own interests.

As always, the desires of the shareholders come first and foremost, with the people spending their lives doing the actual work merely considered a resource to exploit the labor of.

Lower inequality means lower salaries at the top end.

Amazon pays fairly well when you take the entire market into consideration, but somewhat poorly when you're looking at the top end (FAANG…but even then, they are all over the place). But the anchoring you've brought up is really what they'll pay US-based developers, rather than someone in the UK.

This is the UK. When comparing to the US it's always lower.

I have quite a similar journey working in England, so it looks typical.

UK salaries are lower than in the US. I wouldn’t describe these salaries as high, but they’re not low either.

Comparative companies? Like GAFAM?

At what location?

> a new grad straight out of undergrad makes like $150k at Amazon (which is the low end of comparative companies)

and a new grad at non tech / non banking makes ??