That's monthly? I would make more as a postman in norway (working considerably less).
Re:The World's Most Expensive Cities 2010
by starkfist on Saturday June 26, 2010 @04:36PM
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I was shocked at how low the salaries were in Japan when I lived there. The company subsidizes the train, which otherwise would be a major expense, but still...
Re:The World's Most Expensive Cities 2010
by ComputerGuru on Saturday June 26, 2010 @05:03PM
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Starting salary for an engineer in Jordan is 300JD (450USD/month) working 9 hours a day.
When I did a one year internship in Japan 13 years ago, I lived in a company dormitory, could eat breakfast and dinner in the dormitory cafeteria, and the company subsidized my train pass. They had a washing machine there, too. The cost of living in the dormitory was subsidized to such a degree, that I teased a coworker that he was paying more for a place to park his car than a place to park his body overnight.
With this system, the only really necessary expenses not covered are the culturally mandatory, after work drinking sessions.
If you live like a Western executive, though, it can be kind of pricy. (My friends and I sometimes talk -- mostly jokingly -- about the English tax: if you need somebody to explain things to you in English, you are almost certainly paying a premium over market for that service. On high-end apartments, for example, the difference between going to the place I know which markets itself as foreigner friendly and walking into the apartment service and asking for the comparable apartment next door is about 50%.)