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Are there parts of the world where it's customary for salaries to be known?
by glhaynes 16y ago
Are there parts of the world where it's customary for salaries to be known?
- tonfa 16y agoThere are parts of the world (Scandinavia) where the tax filling is public, from that you can have a good guess.
- rweba 16y agoIn Norway all tax returns are public: http://skattelister.no/ http://skattelister.no/ In fact I just looked up an old high school classmate and was initially surprised at how much she was making - until I realized 280,000 Kronor is only about 50,000 USD.
- michael_dorfman 16y agoFYI: 280.000 is a pretty poor salary in Norway. Gasoline here just topped $10/gal, if that gives you an idea of the cost-of-living-adjustment necessary. In other words, your friend is not living the life that a $50k salary in the US would buy (in terms of disposible income.) On the other hand, she gets 5 weeks of paid vacation a year, full health care, and a year's paid maternity leave with each child.
- InnocentB 16y agoGasoline prices aren't a good indicator of cost of living. They are a factor to be sure, but their prices are too overwhelmed by political policy (ie gasoline taxes) compared with other expenses, which introduces too much noise into the data.
- michael_dorfman 16y agoIt was just an example; food is equally expensive, and many consumer goods are roughly double the US equivalent price.
- patio11 16y agoAt many Japanese megacorps, the company's salary schedule is widely distributed in the company. At my company, the engineering track so closely followed the monopsony engineering employer in this region (cough I wonder what large automobile manufacturer that could be cough) that there is literally no middle class adult within 400 miles who could not guess my salary within 2% for each of the last seven years.