[zepearl]

Developers earn 250k USD/year in the US?

Any reference to the european "brain dead"-problem?

[freeone3000]

Yes.

https://voxeu.org/article/european-brain-drain is fairly comprehensive, but the idea is that highly skilled people generally go where they're paid the most for their skills.

[kensai]

This is an 11-year old article and honestly total bullshit. European developers and professionals in general are quite happy with the welfare in Europe. It's a completely different mindset. Yes we earn much less, but at least if we can sick or fired we know we can get some decent support from the state.

[mruts]

Not all of them, but engineering jobs with total comp >250k USD are not difficult to find at all.

[pm90]

> european "brain dead"

I'm guessing you mean brain drain. Or is there a Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease epidemic that I missed? : )

[zepearl]

haha, thx, soooorry, I misread... :))

[joncrane]

Absolutely. Many in Silicon Valley make much, much more as Individual Contributors.