Ineiev wrote: > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 2:53 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak <k...@familieknaak.de> > wrote: >> Average blue collar worker wage in Germany is about 2800 EUR/month. This >> does not include the employers share of the pension insurance. So even >> ten times your bit would still be near the lower end of the spectrum of >> wages for less qualified jobs... > > Again, I was not speaking about actual salaries.. but in Cosmodamiansk > (500 miles eastward from Moscow) 3000 eur/year is considered a good > income. wage is often not thought of as a mandatory attribute of a job > there. >
In part this has to do with price levels which in some countries are artifical and government controlled/subsidized. Just one example: Roughly 15 years ago the price for a good bottle of Whiskey in the US or Western Europe was $15. Someone who came back from a business trip to Russia offered Vodka from there. It was excellent and he said that it was considered a very good brand over there. Asked what he had paid for the bottle: "About 50 cents". That blew me away. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user