&gt;  Out of uni salary for example seems to be around 38k in Europe, whereas in US everything under 90k seems very low.<p>Part of that may be because your view of the US is distorted by being limited to a particularly highly-paid slice of the field in a highly-paid geographical region; 90k is close to the median salary for the highest of the non-management programming occupation titles (software engineer -- software developer and computer programmer pay less) in the BLS salary survey, and therefore pretty <i>high</i> paying for the technology field as a whole, rather than the level where anything under it is low for the field.