https://jobs.theguardian.com/job/8512191/head-of-cyber-secur...
You have the head of cyber security making almost 1/2 as much as many CS grads right out of college.
People can and will say they want more rights... but if that were _really_ true you would see tons of tech workers breaking down the door to get into Europe. As it stands, the complete opposite is happening.
This sounds like an assumption based firmly in the American value system. This part is often missed:
> 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday
Anyway comparing a government job to big tech isn't fair. It is big tech salaries that are unusual, not the other way around.
A similar role in the US would still pay 3-4x that.
>This sounds like an assumption based firmly in the American value system. This part is often missed
This is based on people "voting with their talent" and showing that they will put up with _a lot_ in exchange for $150k+ salaries.
>> 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday
So best case scenario, you get 20 days more paid leave than in the US (which typically only has 2 weeks or 10 days). That works out to approximately 7.7% higher effective wage.
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/leave-ad...
You could pretty easily match that amount of PTO for a comparable position.
Sorry to break it to you, but it's already happening and not at all related to what happens in Europe, but to US's own incompetency on responsible economics.
It is all related. It is so much harder to do business in Europe than in the US, especially in tech. Almost exclusively due to regulation.
Here Google is a behemoth having thousands of employees and most probably unlimited cash flow all across the world and you are suggesting a few hundred UK workers should be more concerned about this behemoth's responsibilities than their own benefits?
You can care about whatever you want. Introducing regulation and hoops to jump through for businesses comes with a cost though.
>are suggesting a few hundred UK workers should be more concerned about this behemoth's responsibilities than their own benefits?
It goes beyond Google. I'm saying Europe should be concerned that a lot of their top talent leaves to start businesses or work in other countries.
An "IT Specialist" at the US Treasury gets paid between $150-180k.
It says the workers studying fell ill but recovered within the same day.
This could be said about any job
>Also does the UK have paid speaking engagements like the US does?
No idea