If they are working in tech, their employer either pays for it fully or subsidizes it to the point where the person just pay something nominal like $50-100/mo, and it is not counted as their salary. So people usually don’t include that when saying how much they make, because they typically dont even actually know or care how much their employer pays for it (at my place of work you actually have to go pretty deep into the HR portal to look it up).
> Sure, and if you live in Canada, you're explicitly paying for healthcare in the form of high taxes.
You mean, “the United States”, not Canada, right? The US pays more (not just per capita, but as a share of GDP, and thus would need higher taxes to pay for it) out of public funds for healthcare than Canada does. See, e.g., https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-...
The US, unlike Canada, also pays a bit more in private funds on healthcare than it does in private funds.
Probably lower than what Americans pay (between 2.9%-3.8% Medicare tax plus insurance premiums). America's healthcare system is really bloated and inefficient compared to developed countries.
Not even close. I pay a $250 premium for my family of 6, my employer pays the rest. My health coverage is worth $24,000 per year if I paid out of pocket — with the SV salary differential between Canada and Silicon Valley, I am still coming out much further ahead even if I had to pay 100% of my own insurance.