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Re:UK Treasury trying to find a Head of Cyber Security for £55k by eckesicle on Sunday April 02, 2023 @05:49AM (#35408863)
I worked at Coinbase making 140k GBP in base compensation.

My SF based colleagues with the same job title were making 250k USD (so 202k GBP).

We sat down one day and compared our household budgets line by line and in the end we estimated that 'money left over' for equivalent house, medical and kids education my American colleagues were slightly better off, but maybe only by 5-10k USD per year.

Anecdatally ...

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Re:UK Treasury trying to find a Head of Cyber Security for £55k by nivenkos on Sunday April 02, 2023 @06:32AM (#35409103)
140k is an incredible salary in the UK though, like top 0.1% at least.

It's also hard to compare things 1:1 - since the NHS is "free" (via taxation), but it doesn't cover dentistry at all really whereas equivalent good US health insurances will do.

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Re:UK Treasury trying to find a Head of Cyber Security for £55k by lozenge on Sunday April 02, 2023 @06:44AM (#35409163)
You're off but not by much, 1% earn over 183k, 2% earn over 128k and 3% earn over 104k meaning they were in the top 2% of income earners.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/percentile-points-f...

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Re:UK Treasury trying to find a Head of Cyber Security for £55k by dan-robertson on Sunday April 02, 2023 @08:40PM (#35417085)
Also top deciles are concentrated in London / the south east so a lower %ile when you restrict to London
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Re:UK Treasury trying to find a Head of Cyber Security for £55k by airpoint on Sunday April 02, 2023 @09:17AM (#35410191)
Incredible salary in the UK != incredible salary in London
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Re:UK Treasury trying to find a Head of Cyber Security for £55k by hhmc on Sunday April 02, 2023 @11:15AM (#35411402)
You are gated from almost nothing in London on £140K -- the only meaningful exception would be buying a house in a central location
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Re:UK Treasury trying to find a Head of Cyber Security for £55k by shawabawa3 on Sunday April 02, 2023 @05:57AM (#35408918)
Bare in mind at the time coinbase also paid above market rate in London (London rates were cut for new hires shortly after IIRC) (I also worked at CB London)
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Re:UK Treasury trying to find a Head of Cyber Security for £55k by NullPrefix on Sunday April 02, 2023 @06:05AM (#35408956)
How much of the budget was mortgage? Because with mortgage you can sell the expensive house afterwards.
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Re:UK Treasury trying to find a Head of Cyber Security for £55k by hhmc on Sunday April 02, 2023 @11:18AM (#35411457)
Not the part of the mortgage that's accumulated interest -- which is going to be considerable at current rates.
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Re:UK Treasury trying to find a Head of Cyber Security for £55k by BoorishBears on Sunday April 02, 2023 @05:54AM (#35408893)
The fact that people living in SF managed to be ahead by anything proves there's a massive delta, especially since you're wording this in past-tense (SF has gotten cheaper depending on the timeline you consider)
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