Minimum wage in your country?

[Turbinator]

I just learned that the minimum wage in Australia is $15/hour, wow good job Australia. :thumbup:
In Canada it is $10.25/hour in my province.

What about in your country/area?

 

[N_Molson]

7, 06€ / hour here (France, all charges and taxes paid). Which makes $10.14 / hour

We must consider that Public schools are free and the basic medical insurance is free, too.

 

[tl8]

We must consider that Public schools are free and the basic medical insurance is free, too.

The same is true in Oz (Although the public health system is a little worse for wear).

 

[Ark]

$7.25. I can tell you from firsthand experience it's pretty much impossible for an adult to live on without some kind of government assistance.

 

[SiberianTiger]

Quite officially, $0.64 per hour here.

 

[edsupagood]

$8.67 over here. Although it's the highest than any other state, if you ask me it's quiet low.

 

[tblaxland]

I just learned that the minimum wage in Australia is $15/hour, wow good job Australia. :thumbup:

Actually, AUD 13.59/hour last I checked . Since our dollar is soaring ATM, that is USD 14.33.

We must consider that Public schools are free and the basic medical insurance is free, too.

The same is true in Oz (Although the public health system is a little worse for wear).

"Free" needs a little definition.

To begin with most public schools (in NSW anyway) charge annual fees (they call them "voluntary", but just try and get away without paying them :dry.

Many doctors, especially in regional areas where unemployment is highest and minimum wage provisions are most relied on, will charge at rates higher than the insured value (in the big cities there is sufficient competition to prevent this).

Finally, the above minimum wage has taxes deducted from it that pay for all that stuff. It is not a minimum take-home wage. Having said that, Australia's tax wedge (broadly: income tax minus social security benefits) is pretty good in comparison to other OECD countries.

Australia's minimum wage has also seen wages growth (in real terms) of about 7% over the past decade. I'd be interested to know how that compares with other countries. I think it has been driven by our low unemployment (currently 4.9%) and skills shortages that drive up average wages and thereby put upward pressure (at least from a political point of view) on minimum wages.

(Lot's of parentheses in that post :hmm

 

[tl8]

tblaxland, I actually just checked, and it is actually $15 per hour. http://www.fairwork.gov.au/pay/national-minimum-wage/pages/default.aspx

And yes, although education and healthcare are "free" there is a lot of fine print that makes them not so free. At least private healthcare is somewhat affordable.

 

[kevin580]

Oh my probe, we haven't got this. Someone said it in year 2006, it should be 5.00€

 

[Urwumpe]

There is no general minimum wage here, but there are minimum wages possible for individual branches, also there are laws that make too low wages criminal (Less than 2/3rd of the average wage for the job)

http://www.nrwinvest.com/Business_G...social_security/Terms_of_Employment/index.php

The whole mess is a bit more complex here, the tariff autonomy in Germany is part of the constitution, so the government does only have the right to intervene in extreme situations, at the same time, the unions and employee organizations have more legal power here, than in many other countries.

If you do all well as company owner, your employees will not negotiate against you, but rather really focus on getting a fair share of the profits (Volkswagen is, despite the huge corruption scandal in their union, still a good example).

But there are also many black sheep around, that show that the laws aren't really sufficient. There was for example a company, that made membership in a fake union mandatory, often without telling the new employees that they just joined a union when they signed the paperwork for the new job at their employer. This just gets slowly rolled up, and by the evidence that is slowly gathered by journalists about the scale of the criminal energy there, the fake union and all involved companies will face a very hard time: Even if the justice might just give these bosses a small slap on their hand, the real unions will be not so friendly and usually don't forget such mistreatment.

 

[agentgonzo]

Nice Graphs for comparison

 

[Sar]

There's no minimum wage in Finland, it depends on the field you work in. Minimum wage for farmers is 7e/h if I remember correctly, in the restaurants it's about 10e/h, trainees in general get 80% of minimum. It's a bit complex system and I only know the restaurant wages. Head chef gets a bit less than 14e/h but the longer you've worked it gets higher until you've worked five years and it maxes out to around 16e or so.

There's also some extra payments you get when certain conditions are met, for instance after eight hours of work you'll get twice the money per hour and after 6pm you get a bit more per hour and if the restaurant sells hard liquours (>22% alcohols) you'll get more per hour.

And yes the system is a wee bit complex.

 

[JEL]

I just learned (thank you google) there's no minimum wage defined by law in Denmark either. I was so sure this country had one, but apparently not.

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

$HK28 ($US 3.59)/hour
This is a highly controversial issue here, since my city's government is really pro-business for a long time. Since we pay low taxes, we don't have a lot of social welfare to enjoy. I doubt that anyone can live with the minimum wage here, not when the price of a flat here reaches ~$US 700 per square feet...:tumbleweed:
For reference: [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_Hong_Kong"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_Hong_Kong[/ame]

 

[N_Molson]

"Free" needs a little definition.

By free, I mean free. The part you pay as a participation to the social system are the taxes. And the $10.14/hour are what you earn once the taxes are deducted (it's called General Social Contribution, CSG in French).

 

[Nistenf]

1470 pesos/435 dollars a month, working 20 days a month, 8 hours a day it's 2.7 dollars per hour

 

[N_Molson]

By the way, it means nothing if we don't have a reference to say how expensive the life is.

So, how costs a kilogram of rice (that should be international enough) in your country ?

Here it's 0.89€/kg in a discount store, which makes 1,27 $/kg. I guess it's much much less in Russia, for exemple.

 

[GoForPDI]

£5.75 an hour - $9.63 an hour

1kg of rice costs 75 pence (£0.75) which is $1.22 per kg in American money.

 

[jedidia]

Minimum wages in Bosnia? I'm sure there's some fancy, good looking number in some paper filed somewhere in a courts archive, but practically, the concept is non-existant.

 

[Urwumpe]

So, how costs a kilogram of rice (that should be international enough) in your country ?

Minimal price is 0.89€/ kg (if you buy a 10 kg bag), typical price is about one Euro, unless you buy the Uncle Ben's brand, which is about 20% more expensive.