Role
Compared with hiring in
Country of hire
Gross salary — €70,000
Structure
US baseline includes employer taxes and benefits:
The US benchmark — base salary
Base salary, one figure per cell, equity and variable pay on top. No source publishes scaleup pay, metro split and base salary together, so this is a hybrid and says so: the GTM rows (Head of Sales, Account Executive, Customer success) come from ICONIQ’s GTM Compensation Guide (Aug 2025, 205 software companies) and the Pavilion/Captivate GTM Compensation Report (2025), which are scaleup-specific but never separate San Francisco from New York — where a row shows the same figure for both, that is the finding, not an error. Engineering, product and marketing rows come from Built In 2026 metro data, tech-sector and base-only but not stage-filtered; Solutions Engineer is levelled to RepVue’s verified SaaS base. GTM Engineer is the weakest row: the title is too new for survey data, so it is anchored to Revenue Operations and corroborated against live postings. Where two defensible figures existed, the higher one is shown.
What the employer actually pays
Conversions at EUR/USD 1.1666 (26 Aug 2026).
Your role
Your US city
US gross salary — edit it
Target city
Household
The basket — monthly, line by line, editable
Prefills scale to your household from per-city prices. A ● marks a line you edited — its value survives city and household changes until you reset it.
Savings to match
Absolute dollars is the default. Percentage flatters the US salary.
The three ways the money can reach you.
Every offer from a US company arrives in one of three structures. Which one you accept decides how the money lands and what comes with it.
How the money arrives: a local-currency salary through local payroll, with the benefits package and paid leave that come with it.
When it gets offered: when the US company already has an entity in your country. The cleanest of the three — but without an entity they cannot do it, and most will not open one for a single hire.
Ask before accepting: whose entity employs you · the notice period and paid leave · in Portugal and Greece, whether salary pays across 14 instalments rather than 12.
How the money arrives: you invoice, in whatever currency the contract names. You handle your own registration, and the costs the other two structures absorb come out of your headline rate.
When it gets offered: when the company wants to move fast without setting anything up. The headline number is the highest of the three, and it has to be — it is covering what the other two include.
Ask before accepting: is the rate set high enough to cover what you now carry yourself · how long the contract runs and how it renews · what notice either side gives.
How the money arrives: a real local contract with local salary and benefits, while the work and the manager stay American. The company pays the EOR roughly $599 a month for it.
When it gets offered: it is the default for US companies hiring in Europe without an entity of their own. A company that offers EOR unprompted has done this before — read it as a green flag.
Ask before accepting: which EOR · permanent or fixed-term · what the benefits package includes · what happens to your contract if the US company stops paying the EOR.