Re:21 Years of Income as a Software Engineer in San Francisco
by the_mitsuhiko on Monday February 26, 2018 @02:03AM
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As I tried to explain above the wages alone do not matter. Detroit is a dysfunctional city with severe lack of basic services. I strongly doubt any EU citizen no matter how disadvantaged would see an improvement by a hypothetical move to Detroit.
Mexico and Ukraine I cannot comment because I know little about it.
EU/EEA countries, selected average monthly wages:
Portugal : 1158 EUR Estonia : 1201 EUR Latvia : 925 EUR Lithuania : 851 EUR Poland : 1102 EUR Czech Republic : 1149 EUR Slovakia : 980 EUR Hungary : 955 EUR Romania : 787 EUR Croatia : 1081 EUR Bulgaria : 586 EUR Greece : 1092 EUR
(source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_...)
Summary - Detroit/Michigan wages are three to five times higher than all of the above EU/EEA countries.
No figures are PPP adjusted (but clearly there is a very large gap between Detroit/Austrian-grocery-store-wages compared to much of the EU/EEA).
If we don't want to stick to the EU (btw, you originally referred to "Europe"), using the examples proffered so far:
Mexico 664 EUR per month vs Ukraine 264 EUR per month