You're clearly exaggerating. You'd only be stoned to death if you bragged about it.
$150k is really a ridiculous amount of money in Sweden. Not that living expenses are low or anything, but most of life's big expenses are taken care of already: you get a real pension, universal health care, paid for university (no need to save up for your kids), long vacations, 16 months parental leave, cheap child care ($150/month) etc. So $60k is actually plenty. Also, a year or two ago, $60k was $80. The exchange rate is unpredictable.
You probably won't be getting any (liveable) pension and in the near future we may see tuition fees for university studies.
Haven's above cant have one of those greasy engineers getting over themselves don't they know their place in life is cutting the grass at bag end :-).
Obviously the famous "I know my place" sketch works as well in Sweden as it does in the UK.