Top 12 List of minimum Wages (in U.S. Dollars Buying Power) of Various Countries.

[BlueJazz]

I was forced to make this list after my Right-Wing neighbor (this morning) was talking to 3 other neighbors and said:
"We need to lower the Minimum wage...We have, by far, the highest Minimum wage in the World"

After I post this. I'm going over and shove this list in his Face. Heh..Heh.. :)

Wages are Yearly >




Denmark ..............23,590
United Kingdom.........22,204
Australia .............20,014
Luxumbourg.............19,690
Netherlands ...........19,358
Belgium................18,877
Ireland................18,782
France.................17,621
Canada.................16,738
New Zealand ...........16,482
San Marino.............15,707
Switzerland .......... 15,448

[beyurslf]

1. You might want to add the US to the list because he probably thinks we are higher than that.

At a family thing this summer, my uncle said he wasn't what the minimum wage was, but he thought it was around 12-15 an hour. :)

[uncommon]

3. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Sorry, that was just really really funny.

$15/hr lol.

I started at $15/hr at my first professional job lol.

[BlueJazz]

4. Thanks!..I added "Top 12" to heading. :)

[SCantiGOP]

14. US minimum

Is $7.25. I think I remember that a typical 40 hour per week annual wage is based on 2,096 hours, so the US yearly wage would be $15,196.

[HughBeaumont]

2. Yep, screw the poor. Lower THEIR wages, not the CEOs.

TRULY, that's the better solution. Taking money out of the hands of the people who will spend it is SURE to keep the economy nice and humming into the shockwaves! Because who needs a living wage when you gots TAX CUTZ!!!??!?!!11!?!?!



Is there ANY Republican/Conservative in existence besides David Cay Johnston that isn't a complete economic IDIOT???

[uncommon]

5. Um, can you put the US on the list? This hardly makes your point without it.

[LostinVA]

7. +1

[BlueJazz]

10. Sorry..we're at (about ) 15,000

[LostinVA]

6. What is the US's???

[LostinVA]

8. Also, many of those countries also have healthcare

Housing, childcare,e tc. subsidized by the government.

[SidDithers]

9. Not sure how the calculate those numbers...

but here in Ontario, minimum wage is $10.25 / hr

Based on a 40hr week, and 52 weeks/yr (we have 2 weeks paid vacation included), that's $21,320.

The Canadian dollar is at $0.95 USD right now, so $21,320 CDN is ~ $20,250 USD.



What's the source for this?

Maybe they're taking the average minimum wage over the 10 Canadian provinces. Some provinces are lower than Ontario's $10.25.

Sid

[BlueJazz]

11. It's the average in various countries. Source was Wikipedia

Some countries and U.S. have varied pay scales but I just wanted to show my neighbor he was full of it. :)

[SidDithers]

12. Thanks!...

:hi:

Sid

[kentuck]

13. Should the US minimum wage be higher?

Tell your Congressman. Give him the list above.

[slampoet]

15. And i would love to live anywhere on this list.

I had to look up San Marino but it looks fantastic.

the oldest recorded sovereign state and constitutional republic in the world, as the continuation of the monastic community founded on 3 September 301 by stonecutter Marinus of Rab. Legend has it that Marinus left Rab, then the Roman colony of Arba, in 257 when the future emperor, Diocletian, issued a decree calling for the reconstruction of the city walls of Rimini, which had been destroyed by Liburnian pirates.<6>

The constitution of San Marino, enacted in 1600, is the world's oldest constitution still in effect.<7> The country's economy mainly relies on tourism, and San Marino's culture remains Italian, mainly Emilia-Romagnan in essence. It is one of the wealthiest countries in the world in terms of GDP (per capita), with a figure comparable to some of the more developed Italian regions, such as Lombardy and the Province of Bolzano-Bozen. San Marino is considered to have a highly stable economy, with the lowest unemployment rate in Europe, no national debt and a budget surplus.<[br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Marino

[SOS]

16. Nixon proposed a guaranteed minimum income in 1970

And his health care plan was nearly identical to the one passed last year.

Says something about the extreme rightward shift in this country.

[ParkieDem]

18. I've always liked this idea ...

One of the few Friedmanesque ideas that I think would work well.

Instead of a minimum wage, welfare, food stamps, HUD vouchers and all of the other programs that are costly to administer, you simply have a negative income tax, e.g., a minimum income, to which every American is entitled. It rises gradually with inflation, and is designed to be enough to cover the very very basics. No company would pay less than the minimum income, because no one would accept it. It would be very hard to defraud the government. Conservatives would like the simplicity and lack of bureaucracy, and liberals would like the guaranteed part of it.

I doubt it will ever be passed now, but I still think it's a good idea.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

17. What's the source? I want to see where Brazil is.

I imagine it will be around 10,000-11,000.

[The Northerner]

19. K&R

[TheKentuckian]

20. When you are so far removed from minimum wage that you have no clue what it is

maybe you have no business claiming it is too much. Clearly, you couldn't live on it or even double the amount.