[AlchemistCamp]

Paying a given salary in Germany is a lot more expensive for a company than paying the exact same salary in America. There are both more taxes on the employer side and more labor regulations that cost money to comply with. The number of hours worked tends to be different, too.

[eru]

The wedge between gross and net pay is indeed big in Germany.

Btw, it's getting bigger in the US as well over the least few decades.

Singapore is a place with a smaller gap, and less regulation. That's part of the reason they went from third world to first world.