Almost all US software jobs come with healthcare for your family. Average student loan amount is like $30k. Even accounting for these costs EU pay is pretty bad compared to US. I was saving $100k/y my first job out of school in the US. This was at a good-but-not-great company with a standard new grad offer

The seemingly only place that’s replicable is in Switzerland at a handful of companies (Google and some small other companies) and that’s not even in the EU.

> You have to take into account that cost of healthcare

You literally don't, since companies provide this. Unless of course you're accounting for the better healthcare you'd receive in the US?

> cost of living

Where most IT jobs are based in europe it isn't cheap to live at all..

the difference between europe salaries and usa salaries are multiple of any student loan or healthcare that you can get.