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Re:In Estonia virtually every process is digitized by baybal2 on Sunday October 22, 2017 @06:37PM (#15529397)
>I make $40k after tax, in Russia

That makes you a rather expensive employee if the company hiring you actually pays your pension contributions, EI, medical bills, and other quasi-tax charges (which are much higher than in the West.)

24k a year is what a good grad can expect in a company that pays taxes in full. The full cost of employing such a guy will be right about $40k

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Re:In Estonia virtually every process is digitized by nofilter on Monday October 23, 2017 @01:59AM (#15531020)
In Estonia the employee doesn't have to pay any taxes what-so-ever. The employer is the one that pays taxes from your bruto salary, which is required by the law (health insurance, pension, etc). In fact most people, when negotiating salaries, simply ask for how much they want in NET, because nobody besides the company cares about bruto.
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Re:In Estonia virtually every process is digitized by thriftwy on Monday October 23, 2017 @09:12AM (#15532896)
In Russia, you pay 13% in direct tax (deduced automatically) and also your employer pays an additional ~30% to health insurance, pension, etc.

It's frequent nowdays to be cited your salary before 13% tax.

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Re:In Estonia virtually every process is digitized by thriftwy on Sunday October 22, 2017 @07:03PM (#15529513)
Not sure it's much higher, I'd say roughly the same when you consider tax bracket and things like 401k. But sure, it's not cheap.
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