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0 pointsmoolave15y ago0 comments

Yeap, he's based out in Finland.

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Lazywebs googling shows Finland doesn't have a universal minimum wage, but that in 2008 salaries for the lowest paid jobs averaged €1600/mo.

So €2000/mo is not too far from what you'd expect "minimum wage" to be, equity notwithstanding.

http://www.finlandforthought.net/2008/07/14/no-minimum-salar...

lkozma15y ago

It's worth mentioning that Finland is quite egalitarian, so the difference between the "minimum wage" and a "decent wage" and a "very nice wage" are pretty small. e2k is quite close to what can be earned as a programmer or engineer at entry level at Big Co., so if a startup pays that it's not too bad.

Also, these are not directly comparable to US salaries, because you get a lot of things almost for free, which you'd have to pay for in US: education, healthcare, transportation, sauna every day, etc.

anamax15y ago

> Also, these are not directly comparable to US salaries, because you get a lot of things almost for free, which you'd have to pay for in US: education, healthcare, transportation, sauna every day, etc.

Someone is paying for those things, so they're not free.

In terms of tax dollars per capita, the US is in the middle/top of the EU. However, it looks like we get less for our tax dollars than EU folk do. It's unclear how more US tax revenue would change that.

On the other hand, the US is significantly above the EU in terms of income and GDP per capita.

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