> As usual, in the US you will almost certainly get paid more

Switzerland is one of the few countries where getting paid more in the US for the same job would generally not be an "as usual" :) The large majority of equivalent jobs gets paid more in Switzerland, including office ones. The ones that don't are the outliers (which are of course greatly overrepresented here on HN).

This is IME, so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.