But you can't directly compare European salaries to USA salaries in any meaningful way.... cost of living on America's coasts are so much higher. And there is no free healthcare. Right?
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There is Medicaid and Medicare, and employee plans.
Individual Germans are quite poor, even for European standards.
But, I'd argue that our quality of life is higher, on average. You need to be upper-class, in America, to live like a middle-class or higher working-class German.
nostr:npub1m4ny6hjqzepn4rxknuq94c2gpqzr29ufkkw7ttcxyak7v43n6vvsajc2jl GDP per capita at PPP is not a measure of salary, but considers everything in an economy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita