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I recently got a job as a software developer in Sweden and maybe have an income/compensation that put me in top 25% in my country just on starting salary + bonus while getting 6 weeks vacation, free drinks and coffe at work and such without having demanding work conditions and will probably have enough money for a mortage in about 2 years.
From what I can tell talking with americans it sound like even some of the best paid people in many ways would have it worse than me, much less vacation and worse work conditions, maybe worse income/saving potential due to things like student and healthcare cost and debt and things like car and rent costs. And that is like top 25%, if you go down the income ladder it seems it get much worse for americans than it get for Swedes while it don't really seems to get better if you go up, maybe you get a bit more income in USA but all the huge costs and drawbacks, especially the very little time off work make earning more money pretty meaningless. Being at median income in USA sound like poverty to me, meaning like half americans could be considered poor.
Like is wages and compensations in USA, even for the top jobs so bad as I'm thinking/hearing compared to what we get in Sweden?
From what I can tell talking with americans it sound like even some of the best paid people in many ways would have it worse than me, much less vacation and worse work conditions, maybe worse income/saving potential due to things like student and healthcare cost and debt and things like car and rent costs. And that is like top 25%, if you go down the income ladder it seems it get much worse for americans than it get for Swedes while it don't really seems to get better if you go up, maybe you get a bit more income in USA but all the huge costs and drawbacks, especially the very little time off work make earning more money pretty meaningless. Being at median income in USA sound like poverty to me, meaning like half americans could be considered poor.
Like is wages and compensations in USA, even for the top jobs so bad as I'm thinking/hearing compared to what we get in Sweden?