| Comment | Do you know how much I pay out of pocket for my healthcare? £0.
The point here is that a big salary of $100k is not going to be take-home pay after taxes. A large chunk will go to paying for insurance. I doubt you were on $100k as a teacher, by the way, so $200 probably represented a much higher proportion of your income on healthcare than what I actually paid in my income taxes towards our socialised healthcare system.
If someone is looking at the relatively higher salaries on offer in the US, they need to remember the other outlays that you lot need to make from your paychecks. I'm not saying that that calculation will necessarily still favour remaining to work in the UK rather than emigrating abroad, but it's important to remember when comparing raw salaries. |
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