Our current average salary is 149k USD, median is 134k USD.

That’s quite a lot. I imagine you’d be happy if you could get a little more than half as much in Europe.

It's an exaggeration. Starting salary in LA for a bus driver is $53k/year; NYC is $61k. Atlanta is $42k; Seattle $69k; Dallas $48k; Miami $43k. It's really only a very limited amount of cities that have $60k salaries for bus drivers.. and they're all cities where $60k doesn't get you that far.

For a comparison, starting salary for a bus driver in Paris is 30k euros (with no prerequisites, they will send you to learn how to drive a bus). I'd imagine the conditions are much better (a lot more time off, lower working hours), and the cost of living is lower, so those compensate for some of the difference.

Automattic is headquartered in San Francisco, where $60k is a bus driver's salary.

So there are probably very few employees whose 6-month salary would only equal $30k. Most people leaving will be getting a lot more.

Netherlands is around €37k/year, and a minimum of 41 holidays xD

While you are learning it’s only €22k though.

I guess the fact you get free insurance helps, and it’s not quite as bad as I thought, but with an income like that you can get a mortgage of around 170k, which will net you around 40% of a house.

How much after income taxes, though? I recently learned that after taxes, my salary in Eastern Europe is around average salary in a few US states, although on paper (pre-tax) it looks like the US is 4 times richer.

> $60k is a bus driver's salary.

...yearly salary

Right. Which is twice the 6-month minimum value (aka a yearly salary) Automattic is giving people if they want to leave.