[esw]

>he pays $27 per month for his health insurance through his employer, and it's a nice plan.

This is really an outlier. The US average for employee premiums is $104/month for individuals and $392/month for families.

[umanwizard]

That might be an outlier relative to the whole population, but is it one relative to good tech jobs?

I pay $0 for health insurance, for example, and what I get is perfectly good.

[esw]

The context seems to have been lost in the shuffle. Here's what I was responding to:

>I have a brother that works in a pretty normal job earning $42,000 per year (not an outsized salary in the US), he pays $27 per month for his health insurance through his employer, and it's a nice plan. That isn't unusual in the US

My point is that most people in 'pretty normal jobs' pay considerably more for healthcare.

[hayd]

Plans differ wildly in copay/oom etc. So $0 isn't what you end up paying if you actually need to use your health plan.

[adventured]

Show me the US median instead of the average. The average will usually be substantially tilted higher by extreme examples at the top end. I'd be willing to bet the median is closer to $60-$70. That's not expensive.

[closeparen]

For even entry-level tech jobs in the Bay Area, it is quite high. I pay $5.

[jjawssd]

US average? Anyway, all my coworkers pay 30 per person 60 per family on a popular health plan from a major insurance company.