Got offer to relocate to US. Not sure is good or not

Question

I'm a European guy and got an offer to work for a US company.

It's a L5 position

They will sponsor a L2 visa and relocation costs.

Salary will be 180K + 40% Stocks per year to live in Atlanta.

Is a good offer or I could get any better?

Hshdoekdbdjdkd · Accepted Answer

For Atlanta, a base of 180k for an L5 position is a decent pay. It's better than average one could argue.

Your total compensation is something to be calculated before making a decision. When you say 40% stocks, it's unclear to convert it to USD though. For the base, you can check that off.

duffycola · Answer

nomadlist.com is a good source for living cost estimate. another idea would be to look at your savings rate and estimate how many years you‘d need to pay off an appartment. Obvs it doesn‘t factor in country differences like health care, education, insurances if you want to start a family. but home being the biggest investment it should give you a good idea if you‘re making moves up or down in terms of living standard

JackieDaytona · Answer

Assuming that's 180k USD base and 72k USD vesting per year in stock, that's $252k TC.According to levels' data, that's- top 10% of senior SWEs in Atlanta- top 10% of all SWEs in the US- about halfway between median and top 25% of senior SWEs in the US (so roughly top 40%)I'd say it's a good offer, even before considering relocation.

Emigre · Answer

Would you mind sharing how did you manage to get an offer to be relocated to the USA?… I was just wondering what kind of experience level, technical abilities or formation are necessary to get to that. In my mind it has always been something quite hard to get so I was just curious as to what is needed. Thanks in any case.

Rocketuser · Answer

Where in US will you be living? That would decide whether the offer is good or not, but it does look like the base salary is less

Got offer to relocate to US. Not sure is good or not

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