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US is not the highest paying country. Not in the absolute sense -- and definitely not in a relative to living cost sense.

I have my doubts about this ranking, starting for taxes implications which are probably severe for several of the top 10 countries in the rank.

And Switzerland and Israel are very small countries, where the engineering sample is probably very low and so are th work opportunities.

Both the average and the median listed for the US seem way too low in this Bloomberg stat.