Infamy79 on 25 May 2009
| Squilliam said: ^ Im sure they are paid fewer Euros than Dollars. Otherwise one would expect the average wage in the Netherlands to be higher than in the U.S. which it is not. |
They definitely are, but it's never a true 1:1 scale, in the UK a pound is a pound, you earn in pounds and pay in pounds so it's all relative. The same goes everywhere else in the world. Take the Big Mac Index as an example, in Australia, US & Europe the Big Mac is almost exactly 3.50 of local currency. So when you take into account the exchange rate, Europe is getting screwed and Australia is getting a good deal, but you don't notice because you earn local currency. Europe is generally a more expensive continent to live in, taxes are higher, cost of living is higher, therefore wages are also higher.
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