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There's no minimum wage in Sweden and waitstaff there earn good money, the hospitality average would be about $4000 USD monthly. By law you can pay your staff
by A2017U1 8y ago
There's no minimum wage in Sweden and waitstaff there earn good money, the hospitality average would be about $4000 USD monthly.
By law you can pay your staff 10 cents an hour but no one does because that's absurd exploitation of another human being that would be considered socially unacceptable and no one would eat in your restaurant.
The fact that this is so normalised in the states is concerning. I agree with the other comment that if you can't run a business and pay staff a living wage you aren't good at business.
People working full time yet living below the poverty line is the sign of a dysfunctional society. Needing laws to force you into treating others with decency obviously isn't a shared experience across the developed world.
https://jobseurope.net/average-salaries-sweden/ https://jobseurope.net/average-salaries-sweden/
- halfmatthalfcat 8y agoNot sure I would frame these restaurant owners as indecent because a lot of them are locally owned and just trying to survive. You can make an argument that they shouldn't be in business at all but for a lot of people this is their livelihood and there are those who take these jobs either out of convenience or need. I would put most of the onus on the societal normalization of this practice and the fact that the US, being so capitalistic, rewards this behavior. Again, this is my view from living in NYC for the past 5 years and viewing the industry as such. It may be completely different in other cities or countries, but this is the situation here.