Putting things in perspective: half million makes up to about 20-25k per month once you take out taxes in Europe. While huge, it is not incredibly huge. A semi-decent doctor can get close to that amount (it&#x27;s easy when you charge euro 100 per visit and you forget to pay taxes).<p>I am just saying that paychecks tend to be overestimated by people in the low to medium income brackets. Most of those half million folks work 24&#x2F;7. Once you divide by the amount of crazy hours they work, they are making more or less like a decently paid engineer...<p>I am more upset by how much doctors make, for many of them in the end do an office job (they don&#x27;t have hundreds of families futures in their hands). Also because, in many cases, those incomes are high because of stupid laws rather than market value. While CEO do tend to be more on market value.