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Detroit (Michigan State) - average monthly wage 2016, 3,210 EUR per month (source: bls.gov) EU/EEA countries, selected average monthly wages: Portugal : 1158
by EB-Barrington 9y ago
Detroit (Michigan State) - average monthly wage 2016, 3,210 EUR per month
(source: bls.gov)
EU/EEA countries, selected average monthly wages:
Portugal : 1158 EUR
Estonia : 1201 EUR
Latvia : 925 EUR
Lithuania : 851 EUR
Poland : 1102 EUR
Czech Republic : 1149 EUR
Slovakia : 980 EUR
Hungary : 955 EUR
Romania : 787 EUR
Croatia : 1081 EUR
Bulgaria : 586 EUR
Greece : 1092 EUR
(source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_average_wage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_...)
Summary - Detroit/Michigan wages are three to five times higher than all of the above EU/EEA countries.
No figures are PPP adjusted (but clearly there is a very large gap between Detroit/Austrian-grocery-store-wages compared to much of the EU/EEA).
If we don't want to stick to the EU (btw, you originally referred to "Europe"), using the examples proffered so far:
Mexico 664 EUR per month vs Ukraine 264 EUR per month
- the_mitsuhiko 9y agoAs I tried to explain above the wages alone do not matter. Detroit is a dysfunctional city with severe lack of basic services. I strongly doubt any EU citizen no matter how disadvantaged would see an improvement by a hypothetical move to Detroit. Mexico and Ukraine I cannot comment because I know little about it.