US minimum wage compared to UK and France

How much does a Mars bar cost ?


I measure tings in Mars bars.

 

You pay Twice what the US does for Fuel when they are at a price peak.

6$ USD a Gal right now.

 

I think there should be a publicly accessible record of minimum wage levels that employers pay.

That way, people could refuse to be the customers of cheapskate parasite employers who treat staff like shit.

Fortunately I'll never work for someone else, let alone min wage.
But there's sthg really disgusting about some upper class prick treating staff like shit.
Or using visiting immigrant labour to keep wages too low.

 

55p at the cornershop near school. That's the normal size.

 

I was thinking about this in terms of Starbucks and how much coffee costs. Like in the US, you can get a coffee for about two dollars whereas here, you have to pay at least two POUNDS which is almost twice as much.

 

min wage here is $ 7.15...

 

When I was on the Summer holidays at school, I'd convert wages to pints of beer.
Wages were I dunno 7 and whatever GBP, less tax.
So I thought, well thats less than 3 pints an hour.
Plus I'd need to live when I'm outside the pub.

Anyway, drinking less than 3 pints in one hour is a pretty homosexual standard of drinking.
So I packed the job up and took out a bank loan to live on.

And paid it off by other means.Made sense to me...

 

Its at least 70p here. I think.

Hah, we don't even have Starbucks

 

There is Starbucks in the UK.

 

hm. I know the big ones are like 75/80p but the lil ones are definitely not that expensive!

I think Mars Bars are a good method of price checking.. :cheers2:

 

I know.


And Jai, Mars bars are definitely a good method :cheers2:
Ianized :coolgleamA:

 

I've been! But I don't like coffee so I left again.

And for my georgraphy exam I answered a question on Starbucks.

 

Aren't euro worth more than an american dollar, €1 = $1.40 so recalculate that a bit and you get $24,123 a year in France at minumun wage to an americans $13,624. Not half but close or did I miss something?

Lol

 

Might as well. It's better than the mind-bending apologisms.

 

Whether living expenses are higher or not,the fact is ALL Western European countries now have a higher standard of living than the US does.--France's minimum wage in 2006 converted into US dollars was about 12 dollars an hour vs the USs about 6 dollars an hour.France raises their minimum wage every year.---And Ireland + Luxembourg have higher minimum wages than France does. --America better get it's act back together fast,or else it will have more in common with the third world than the premier(top) countries of the world.---BTW the average American works more hours a week too.--The once mighty US has sunk so low.

 

A perfect book for this topic, "Nickeled and Dimed" by Barbara Ehrenreich. It's about a woman that takes different minimum wage jobs around the US and tries to live off of it. Worth checkin out. It's non fiction, like, the author did this herself, it's not a story.

 

Bonkai you're calculation is pretty accurate.

 

haha.. Of course, most of them are immigrants!!



[I'm joking!]

 

Yeah, the final figure is in Internation Dollars. Its a way of comparing the value of two currencies buying power.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geary-Khamis_dollar

 

But when comparing two different currencies, and the standard of living they provide, worthless.