In Finland low wages are relatively high, but high wages are relatively low. This contributes to the relatively high cost of living as “cheap labor” is comparatively not cheap.
Is there a similar comparison somewhere for different income deciles? That would be an interesting comparison
Average is not a good measure in these kind of statistics.
That is in **EU**. Norway and Switzerland? I tried to find those.
50k a year?? I wish I’d make that much.
I struggle to find a job that will pay me more than 12€/h with 7 years of experience and 4 of them in a managerial position. They think asking for 15€/h is too much.
This is logistics.
50k would be cool though.
Edit: Also to add, my brother, who works as a regular warehouse worker, makes 18€/h in Sweden
I made less than him, being a manager and running a warehouse here in Helsinki.
What so special about LUX ?
Netherlands?
Why is Denmark’s avg salary so high?
That’s can explain from a certain perspective why even lots of immigrants complain about the current immigration policy, they still want to stay or come to Finland.
There is a saying in Chinese: a scrawny camel is still lager than a horse.
These people have jobs, bit fancy. /s
Sounds good for the people who can get a job in Finland
Denmark is high, but that number is including salary, pension, 1 extra week of vacation per year as far as I know, bonus, etc. everything in your salary package is included before tax.
Our taxes are anywhere between 30-50% depending on how much you earn, and yes when you buy something in the store, you pay 25% flat VAT as well. It’s not variable here yet. Government says it’s too hard to change in their IT system, where it would be 12% for food and 25% for tech for example.
Too hard to program I tell you. Quantum computing is much much easier. /S
Add on top of that, renting in big cities like Copenhagen if you don’t have a lot of luck or nepotism going on, then you’re going to pay 1750 eur per month to rent a 2 bedroom 60-70m2 apartment.
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In Finland low wages are relatively high, but high wages are relatively low. This contributes to the relatively high cost of living as “cheap labor” is comparatively not cheap.
Is there a similar comparison somewhere for different income deciles? That would be an interesting comparison
Average is not a good measure in these kind of statistics.
That is in **EU**. Norway and Switzerland? I tried to find those.
50k a year?? I wish I’d make that much.
I struggle to find a job that will pay me more than 12€/h with 7 years of experience and 4 of them in a managerial position. They think asking for 15€/h is too much.
This is logistics.
50k would be cool though.
Edit: Also to add, my brother, who works as a regular warehouse worker, makes 18€/h in Sweden
I made less than him, being a manager and running a warehouse here in Helsinki.
What so special about LUX ?
Netherlands?
Why is Denmark’s avg salary so high?
That’s can explain from a certain perspective why even lots of immigrants complain about the current immigration policy, they still want to stay or come to Finland.
There is a saying in Chinese: a scrawny camel is still lager than a horse.
These people have jobs, bit fancy. /s
Sounds good for the people who can get a job in Finland
Denmark is high, but that number is including salary, pension, 1 extra week of vacation per year as far as I know, bonus, etc. everything in your salary package is included before tax.
Our taxes are anywhere between 30-50% depending on how much you earn, and yes when you buy something in the store, you pay 25% flat VAT as well. It’s not variable here yet. Government says it’s too hard to change in their IT system, where it would be 12% for food and 25% for tech for example.
Too hard to program I tell you. Quantum computing is much much easier. /S
Add on top of that, renting in big cities like Copenhagen if you don’t have a lot of luck or nepotism going on, then you’re going to pay 1750 eur per month to rent a 2 bedroom 60-70m2 apartment.
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