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$30k is far beyond minimum wage in most of the world.

• lordkrandel 5y ago
  30k Euros is what I got with 5 years experience as a developer in Italy, and it's quite normal here.
• woodpanel 5y ago
  Yup. German minimun wage is 19.968 € (~ 24.353 $) Interestingly a couple of high-wage countries that come to mind don't have a minimum wage at all: Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden.
  • mcnamaratw 5y ago
    20 Euros per hour is a lot better than $30k per year.
• qris 5y ago
  Looking at the list of countries by minimum wage [1] containing data for 201 countries: * only 5 countries have nominal, effective minimum wage above $30k (Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland) * when accounting for Purchasing Power Parity no country has minimum wage allowing to buy more than $30k in US (obviously ignoring Argentina, as it data is not reliable) Additionally earning $34,000 in 2012 made you into the richest 1 percent globally [2]. So we may guess that today $30k easily lands you in the richest 5 percent globally. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_minimum_wage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_minimum_w... [2] https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/02/27/were-all-the-1-percent/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/02/27/were-all-the-1-percent/
• muzani 5y ago
  It's about top 20% in Malaysia, which is #37 in GDP.