I think that the majority of them will realize that salaries for academics are pretty low compared to the US, and they will either join private labs or professionalize.
What does a Physics prof at Berkely earn these days? In Germany it would be around 10K€/month (lets ignore all tax etc stuff, just ballpark figure)
About 200k USD, I think? But isn’t 10k€/month relatively high for europe, like on the upper end of academic salaries?
€10K seems high to me. In France it would be lower than that, I think, save for maybe a handful of outliers. Google search suggests top earners in physics in academia in Germany is probably between €80K and €90K, or maxing out at €7.5K a month.