You can replace "UK" by "the rest of the world" and it would still be accurate. For example, UK has probably the highest salaries in Europe.

A one bedroom is not $3000+ either.

I know fresh grads in the NYC area who have been offered $130k/year in total compensation from Google and Facebook. I've also known several engineers at Google making in the range of $300k-$500k/year.

There's going to be self-reporting bias here, but these salaries look right to me for bootcamp grads getting offers from the big tech companies.

as a starter offer? They have a wide range in the spreadsheet, but still overall high.

And most of the rest of Europe is lower than London still.

That would still be very high for London/uk

Wow, and it's not like London is cheap.

is that after conversion?

e.g.: 200k USD would equal (200 * 0.79 USD/GBP * 0.8) = 126k GBP?

I wonder if it is because salaries were set before the pound plummetted due to brexit.

For most companies, you at least get more vacation days in London, but i think facebook US already provides 21 business days, I would imagine facebook UK is the standard 5 weeks?