I assumed the figures were in USD. So the majority of the kind of employees that would be here on HN, such as software developers, earn less than 37k EUR in Italy?

True, the upper end of the range, 100k USD = 73k EUR would be pretty high. But in management or consulting, with a few years of experience, it wouldn't be unusual in Germany, for instance. The 250k, on the other hand, are far out of reach for virtually everyone, I agree.

I'm in Switzerland now, which is probably shifting my expectations. Salaries are pretty high here.