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Good by Silicon Valley standards or good by European standards? Because as a software engineer moving from Minneapolis to Palo Alto to London, I have to say salaries in Europe are a fucking joke (although it's improving).

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Don't know about London, but the ration [salary]/[cost of life] in Paris is way better than in SF for a good software engineer.

That's meaningless since costs vary along different axes. I just mean objectively software engineers have not traditionally been valued the same in Europe as they have been in the US.

Don't know about that.

According to Glassdor the average salary is about €39k[1]. In my experience a "good" salary for a french engineer is between €42-50k. Housing isn't cheap in Paris - count about 12k-18k for 430-650 sqft. Going out isn't cheap either.

I've lived a year in SF and had definitely a better [salary]/[cost of life]. It was 5 years ago though.

1. http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/france-engineer-salary-SRC...

Good by french intern standards, so... if you're getting more than minimum wage (1400) you're _very_ (very) lucky. And I'm still wondering which french startups offer an OK compensation. Had interviews at two of them 5 months ago, one is going very big (and was part of Le Camping incubator), the other one has more than 1 million users as of today. Both offered 600e/month.

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