The following statement by the acting head of CEA Online (the branch which includes the CS) may help explain some of the difference:
As mentioned elsethread, these salaries are aimed at not being huge sacrifices for tech workers living in expensive american cities, while also not being egregiously luxurious in lower salary places like Oxford. I imagine some engineers might look at that number and think it’s low compared to their expectations, and some non-engineer Brits might think it’s quite high.
So I think the CS salary may be pulled upward by the need to keep people who live in expensive US cities in the applicant pool, and (possibly) by a desire to avoid significant disparities between tech and non-tech employees at CEA.
The following statement by the acting head of CEA Online (the branch which includes the CS) may help explain some of the difference:
So I think the CS salary may be pulled upward by the need to keep people who live in expensive US cities in the applicant pool, and (possibly) by a desire to avoid significant disparities between tech and non-tech employees at CEA.