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100.000 euro is good money for a job in Amsterdam! Be aware that tax is 49.5% - but you may can get some sort of exemption as expat.
“Good money” if you plan on living in Europe your whole life … with only a 1.16 usd to euro exchange rate (so salary is still only 116,500) + insanely high euro taxes + if Uncle Sam find you … he wants his cut too (as a US citizen you technically owe taxes to him too anything over 105k USD last I checked?)
A year long excursion you can write off the loss for the unique experience, but good luck making that work for you long term + retirement-wise if plan on landing back here at any point.
If you are at that salary point level in your career as a strategist, you are likely in your peak earning years — not sure if would be worth it to take that much of a hit. Maybe just switch jobs and use your extra cash take a month off to travel europe WITHOUT working.
Americans get paid more in the majority of white collar jobs when compared to europe by far … but we forget how important long breaks are to our sanity.
Europe is great, I lived there in my 20s for a year and change. But would I take that kind of cut in my 30s? Hell no.
I'm on a much lower rate than I would be in the US. Do I sometimes want the big pay packets? Yes. Do I want to work in the states again with all the not so healthy work attitude? God no.