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Its not a tax in Europe, but usually the companies share of social insurance. That is why the word payroll tax is confusing to us Europeans :-)

In Germany the company share of social insurance is another ~20% on top of the employees pre-tax salary.

It is not nearly enough to explain the wage disparity between SF/US and European salaries.

Exactly. 20% ON TOP of your salary. It’s baked in to the US salary. Sure, it doesn’t account for the whole delta but it’s not nothing.

So e.g. in Denmark, Employer pays no tax for an employee, but still the salaries are nowhere near US.

Erm not sure what your talking about those us salaries don't have the employer side taxes either.

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