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Monthly salaries across the world (avg disposable income after tax and rent)
- haidut 6y agoSorry if this is a stupid question, but what does the "USD-CLP" column (column I) in the "Ranking" tab stand for?
- ofou 6y agoSince I'm from Chile, and I originally made it for myself, I included a Dollar to Chilean Peso (local currency) conversion. I thought I would be useful to have an option for converting to local currencies to appreciate better the differences among countries. Still a work in progress by the way.
- haidut 6y agoOoh, ok, thanks. Since the numbers in that column were preceded by the "$" sign I thought they were in dollars and referred to something else. Speaking of that something else - the numbers you had in Column I are strikingly close to the officially projected amounts of what a "wealthy" person in each one of those cities would be (in dollars). I mean the US cities only. For example, for the Bay Area that number is in the $4m-$5m range, for DC it is in the $2m-$3m range, etc. I am guessing it is just a coincidence but it drew my attention and since I did not know what the column stood for I asked. It turns out it was not what I thought :-)
- 535188B17C93743 6y agoLooks like Israel and the UK are combined.
- ofou 6y agoHow much can we save if we relocate?
- jaclaz 6y agoWhat is the source for those numbers? Who knows? You have to add - besides the cost of housing - the other costs, including food, transportation, private health (if not public), costs of school for your children (if any), and any number of other factors to make a minimally meaningful comparison.
- bsd44 6y agoExactly. I wish I could downvote this. Not only are the numbers completely subjective, they are also not correct for some countries in the spreadsheet and they don't indicate living costs at all. Lower salary in a country where you don't have to pay for healthcare, university tuition and get 28 days paid holiday a year is a lot more than a higher salary in a country where you don't get any of that. What does the author try to achieve with such biased statistics?
- yostrovs 6y agoThe title does have the words "disposable income" in it, which explains what it is. You can gleam from it what you like, probably influenced by your political views.
- ofou 6y agoIt's an estimate from Numbeo (crowdsourced) data which comes from real people like us, crowdsourcing costs and salaries.
- jcims 6y agoThe numbers are actually much more objective than if they were to mix in all of the subjective quality of life elements that you're describing. This isn't a table of the best places to live.
- ofou 6y ago
- culopatin 6y agoIs this before or after taxes?
- anotheryou 6y agoAnd per person or household? And the median would me more interesting.
- ofou 6y agoPer person. And yeah, I do think the same but couldn't find the median per city. There's another source very interesting in disposable income too. [1] [1]: https://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/RPS_EN-PROD/PROD0000000000494405/Mapping_the_world%27s_prices_2019.pdf?undefined&realload=zkoZ0fX70gaMnlK0WJTCcqkp99fD4LmlWJQOTCyHATI7EwHQqChpNbSpaLlg0uZinjZgQJsa0jcjXFhNhoatfw== https://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/RPS_EN-PROD/PROD000000000049...
- ofou 6y agoafter taxes
- kylewins 6y agoHuh... where are the negative values? That where I am at
- ofou 6y agoThe cost of the Apartment (1 bedroom) in City Centre exceeds the average salary in that specific city.
- lotsofpulp 6y agoIs this useful if it doesn’t include the cost of healthcare? Maybe for young people.
- ofou 6y agoThere's an estimate if you click the name of the city. It redirects you to Numbeo which is a more in depth estimation. check out https://www.numbeo.com/health-care/ https://www.numbeo.com/health-care/
- bballer 6y agoMight want to think of renaming the "Country" column since you are also including states in there.