Showing posts with label usa vs europe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label usa vs europe. Show all posts

Saturday, August 10, 2013

Comparing Salaries: USA vs. France

When you're looking for a job worlwide, it's not easy to compare salaries, taxes and social benefits from one place to the other. However, it's a good time investment to do so, there can be quite surprising results. Herebelow, a comparison of income for the same job advertised for $100,000 in France and in the USA. Although the net salary is lower in France, the whole of salary + benefits is far higher in France than in the US with the same advertised job.
(calculations are for a single, no children, with a sample state tax of 10%, and may not be perfectly accurate, they're made to give a comprehensive view)

USA  Amount France France in €
6,200 $  employer contribution to social benefits 63,139 $ 47,338 €
100,000 $  advertised job salary 100,000 $ 74,973 €
17,250 $  federal income tax as a single 13,365 $ 10,020 €
10,000 $  typical state tax as a single 0 $ 0 €
7,650 $  social benefits 23,001 $ 17,244 €
13,850 $  TOTAL social benefits 86,140 $ 64,582 €
75,100 $  TOTAL net take home salary 63,634 $ 47,709 €
88,950 $  TOTAL salary + benefits 149,774 $ 112,291 €

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

EU Citizens Warned Not To Use US Cloud Services Over Spying Fears

This Slashdot piece of news was referred to me. The funniest part is the comments. Go check.

Strangely, people tend to read this piece of news as just "Oh, the US is doing some privacy-breaking spying." whereas I read it as "Oh, Europe is going to rebel. Will be funny."