Is Belgium the only country where public research pays better than private companies?

I am a pre doc researcher at a public research institute in Flanders. My salary is above the national average. I'm not even paid that much, it's just that Belgian salaries are so equalised that I end up getting slightly more than someone working in private companies with my same seniority whereas in Germany or the Netherlands or the UK or even Switzerland there would be just no comparison. Usually working in academia is a terrible choice finance wise but not in Belgium.