“Average” is a bad way of measuring salaries. No amount of “adjusting for purchasing power” changes that, because you do it for all the participants.
“Median” would be better.
I recall there’s context to this graph. In the case of the USA, if you remove the highest paid person, the average drops to 65000. If you drop the top 10, the average drops to 35000.
A few years ago I heard that a senior Google Dev would make 6Million USD a year. That’s a high end, sure. Think a bit about what that means in terms of “average” and how many people there are in the measurement, and what it means if dropping the top10 can effectively halve your result.
Same remarks can be made about Belgium, and all other countries high on that list.
An average is not a good way to represent this kind of data.
Highest “average” salary, big difference
Except in Switzerland and US you pay 14k taxes on your 74k and in Belgium you pay 30k taxes on your 64k
I don’t have any reason to doubt OECD but I am having a hard time believing average Belgian salaries are higher than Norway, Denmark, UK, Netherlands, etc.
Always funny to see the US up there considering the average American works like 300 hours more per year than the averge European
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“Average” is a bad way of measuring salaries. No amount of “adjusting for purchasing power” changes that, because you do it for all the participants.
“Median” would be better.
I recall there’s context to this graph. In the case of the USA, if you remove the highest paid person, the average drops to 65000. If you drop the top 10, the average drops to 35000.
A few years ago I heard that a senior Google Dev would make 6Million USD a year. That’s a high end, sure. Think a bit about what that means in terms of “average” and how many people there are in the measurement, and what it means if dropping the top10 can effectively halve your result.
Same remarks can be made about Belgium, and all other countries high on that list.
An average is not a good way to represent this kind of data.
Highest “average” salary, big difference
Except in Switzerland and US you pay 14k taxes on your 74k and in Belgium you pay 30k taxes on your 64k
I don’t have any reason to doubt OECD but I am having a hard time believing average Belgian salaries are higher than Norway, Denmark, UK, Netherlands, etc.
Always funny to see the US up there considering the average American works like 300 hours more per year than the averge European
Enjoy your extra money buddies…