US average salary is heavily influenced by the top 100 earners, so this doesn’t actually mean much. See Important note from the documentation:
“Average wages can differ from median wages; for example, the Social Security Administration estimated that the 2020 average wage in the United States was $53,383, while the 2020 median wage was $34,612.[1]”
Median salary is way more useful information imo, but cool chart nonetheless
The average household income for the US in 2023 is 80k so I doubt average income is 70+
And that humongous US salary usually comes with good health insurance. Yes there is a lot to be improved, but for people with jobs, the United States is the best place to live. Yes, I agree that healthcare shouldn’t be so tied to jobs, before all the redditors being reddit come at me about healthcare. Whenever I see other OECD countries’ salaries, I wince a little because it’s actually so much lower after all their taxes take their huge cut.
That is incredibly misleading. In the USA wages are heavily skewed to the right of the distribution curve. You need to break the data down into quintiles for it to show anything useful.
You’re going to get a lot of people saying “should have used median salary”, “what about purchasing parity”, or myriad other metrics.
**But, while you might change the numbers and title . . . the colors and relative rankings remain almost the same.**
USA has definitely got much further ahead in the last couple of decades. The only thing I would add here is to break the US down by state as I imagine there is a lot of variance contained within that average.
The data for Hungary is definitely wrong. Based on the latest report coming from the state statistical office, the annual gross salary is 7640400 HUF, which is about 19000-19500 USD. Nowhere near the 30K+ indicated here.
Aren’t Mexico and Turkey in the OECD? Why aren’t they included?
What’s crazy is Canadians pay more for just about everything compared to Americans, on top of higher taxes.
Well, of course people in the United States will make the most US dollars. (This is a terrible joke, so I don’t blame anyone for hating me.)
I really do wanna know where these numbers are coming from. They don’t seem to line up for where I’m living.
Interesting to see the median and mean discussion here. Might put some effort into making a median to mean ranking plot. I’ll come back with some results tomorrow.
Median should always used with salary because those that are on higher salaries always skews the data. The median salary is more realistic for the great unwashed. Authoritative publications always use median.
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Tool: [Mapchart.net](http://Mapchart.net)
Source: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_wage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_wage)
US average salary is heavily influenced by the top 100 earners, so this doesn’t actually mean much. See Important note from the documentation:
“Average wages can differ from median wages; for example, the Social Security Administration estimated that the 2020 average wage in the United States was $53,383, while the 2020 median wage was $34,612.[1]”
Median salary is way more useful information imo, but cool chart nonetheless
The average household income for the US in 2023 is 80k so I doubt average income is 70+
And that humongous US salary usually comes with good health insurance. Yes there is a lot to be improved, but for people with jobs, the United States is the best place to live. Yes, I agree that healthcare shouldn’t be so tied to jobs, before all the redditors being reddit come at me about healthcare. Whenever I see other OECD countries’ salaries, I wince a little because it’s actually so much lower after all their taxes take their huge cut.
That is incredibly misleading. In the USA wages are heavily skewed to the right of the distribution curve. You need to break the data down into quintiles for it to show anything useful.
[https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/02/07/6-facts-about-economic-inequality-in-the-u-s/](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/02/07/6-facts-about-economic-inequality-in-the-u-s/)
It’s worse now.
You’re going to get a lot of people saying “should have used median salary”, “what about purchasing parity”, or myriad other metrics.
**But, while you might change the numbers and title . . . the colors and relative rankings remain almost the same.**
USA has definitely got much further ahead in the last couple of decades.
The only thing I would add here is to break the US down by state as I imagine there is a lot of variance contained within that average.
The data for Hungary is definitely wrong.
Based on the latest report coming from the state statistical office, the annual gross salary is 7640400 HUF, which is about 19000-19500 USD. Nowhere near the 30K+ indicated here.
Aren’t Mexico and Turkey in the OECD? Why aren’t they included?
What’s crazy is Canadians pay more for just about everything compared to Americans, on top of higher taxes.
Well, of course people in the United States will make the most US dollars. (This is a terrible joke, so I don’t blame anyone for hating me.)
I really do wanna know where these numbers are coming from. They don’t seem to line up for where I’m living.
Interesting to see the median and mean discussion here. Might put some effort into making a median to mean ranking plot. I’ll come back with some results tomorrow.
Median should always used with salary because those that are on higher salaries always skews the data. The median salary is more realistic for the great unwashed. Authoritative publications always use median.
Pretty obvious for anyone who actually travels