[hotpotamus]

In my experience as an American working with people in the EU (particularly the UK/Western Europe), the developers there are every bit as capable as Americans and get paid less than half of what an American would - seems like quite a deal to me.

[nemo44x]

You’re not including all the taxes that need to be paid and that employment bonds are far more difficult to break.

But yeah, EU engineers are very good in my experience.

[hotpotamus]

In the US there are also taxes and a huge expense in the form of private health insurance - my employer says costs increased 9% this year. I don’t know that it balances, but there are additional costs to employers in the US as well.

[nemo44x]

Indeed - they’re much higher in EU though. Also until recently you could deduct 100% of a USA employees salary for tax reasons and that has recently been changed.