You're looking at 80k+ easily, so that's atleast around 4200 or 4300 netto a month which you'll be comfortable with. And yes the market is really hot right now!
Edit: NVM, netto - got it - it's allright.
(in my company we describe everything in terms of how many cheeseburgers from a specific restaurant we can buy with the money)
so 50k?
what's the point of giving salaries not in netto? it just makes it harder to compare
Providing the gross amount could make it easier to compare internationally.
(Perhaps it would be even better to list net salaries everywhere, but taxes can vary by person, so that's not always possible.)
oh shit
so they don't pay 100k after tax to junior devs?
mamma mia, american dream is ded
But in a state like TN or FL that don’t have that burden, it’s far less. Just for my main FTE in TN for 2020, I paid 12.5k on 150k (I also have 3 kids, so there is some tax credit there).
Its top marginal rate is 2.3% higher than Hawai’is, but also kicks in at almost 3× the taxable income (nearly $600K).
Its rate is lower than Oregon's from where Oregon's top rate kicks in to more than double that income. Its bottom nonzero rate is below the rates of the states that have flat income taxes.
> And I’m guessing some of the bigger cities have city tax as well.
Well, if by “some of the major cities” you mean “the single combined city and county”, sure. But only that one.
So effective net income from a $150k job, barring deductions, in California is $98k (Oregon is virtually identical give or take $100) vs Hawaii at $100k.
If you are in California, say, add about 5500 without 401(k), 4k with so total income tax is 29k, or 22k maxing out tax deferral.
So effective rate is about double what you quote, at least for single filing.
E.g. as a employee people often include taxes and other side costs including rent insurance and health insurance into one blob. On the other hand in the US health insurance is often more costly and covers less.
So just running into some non trivial but not to big health issues can easily make the average cost of living over time worse then in Germany.
But without question the "cost for what you get" value isn't the best in Germany, some EU countries have better ratios, e.g. similar cost but a better health system.
That low of a tax rate would only exist in US states with no state income tax.
It’s the same reason retail prices I’m the US are often stated without sales taxes, a practice that is rare or even illegal in other jurisdictions: taxes sometimes differ even between cities, and it is impossible to state a single value for anything but a specific store.