Gasoline price at your local area.

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hellothere said:
Im going all out here. lmao The average salary in the U.S. is around $32,000 a year. The rule of thumb is 33% will go to taxes, medical, and retirement. So the U.S. has around $21,500 of disposable income. That would be about 16,000¬ of disposable income of the average U.S. citizen. The average salary in Finland is around ¬ 21,025 a year. That would work out to be about $28,000 a year. I have no clue on what the disposable income would be but your already making less. Along with higher gas prices in Finland it looks like you are getting the shaft.

I myself earned a bit over 32000¬ last year, and my tax % was 26.5 (progressive and varies between town/cities), including 1% (or 1.6?) for being a member of the church, then you can add approximately 6% for retirement payments, union fees and social/healthcare, so that makes 32.5%. Then you count out expenses, for example what you spend for travelling between work and home, and if i recall i had about 2500¬ expenses, so my income was about 29500¬ , which is my "offical" income. So my disposable income are about 19900¬ , around 26000$. Numbers between countries varies a lot depending what do you count in, so they are not 1:1 comparable. Before my wife left from work for maternal vacation in 2004, she was earning 19000 (gross) a year by making burgers. Btw. A couple of years ago Washington Post (?) calculated, that average of 44.5% from persons gross income in US, is spent to what you pay in Finland in taxes (including social and healthcare fees). In the US, you have long weeks and short vacations, but in exchange, you have better salaries and everything is cheap around there. If i recall, the gasoline tax in Finland is 68 cents and then theres 22% VAT (compared to US 2-8%). But if you say that gasoline is expensive around here, you shoud find out how much cars cost.