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Banned
Member Since: 2/12/2012
Posts: 9,586
Post #21
That sucks.
Adz
Member Since: 10/7/2010
Posts: 1,173
Post #22
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At the end of 2010 the average wage in Australia had reached US$68,370. In America it was just US$44,980.
http://www.atlantalivingwage.org
ALΞX
Member Since: 4/12/2012
Posts: 8,550
Post #23
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Originally posted by
Dust2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...PP)_per_capita
USA is #6
Australia is #14
From IMF
1 Qatar 102,943 2011
2 Luxembourg 80,119 2011
3 Singapore 59,711 2011
4 Norway 53,471 2011
5 Brunei 49,384 2011
— Hong Kong 49,137 2011
6 United States 48,387 2011
7 United Arab Emirates 48,158 2011
8 Switzerland 43,370 2011
9 Netherlands 42,183 2011
10 Austria 41,822 2011
11 Kuwait 41,691 2011
12 Canada 40,541 2011
13 Sweden 40,394 2011
14 Australia 40,234 2011
That definitely has nothing to do with what they just said...
Jamie321
Member Since: 9/12/2007
Posts: 1,008
Post #24
Yeah, it'd be to do with our average wages etc. The absolute minimum wage for everyone 21 and over is $15.96, or $606.40 a week.
Adz
Member Since: 10/7/2010
Posts: 1,173
Post #25
The US minimum wage is like $7...big difference and makes sense why things are cheaper.
Having said that I'm all for lower price itunes tracks.
DownBoy
Member Since: 3/17/2012
Posts: 3,229
Post #26
It's because the standard is higher.
Same thing is in Switzerland - you pay for one CD here and could get two in the US for that money.
However, the salary in general is very high. For example, a nurse earns in US around 3500$, while in Switzerland you earn about 6500-7000$.
Sunshine.
Member Since: 8/16/2011
Posts: 19,718
Post #27
That's probably cause everything has to be shipped overseas...including digital music.
ks_dollar
Member Since: 5/29/2012
Posts: 26,389
Post #28
Everything is more expensive.
Harmonic Dreamer
Member Since: 8/7/2010
Posts: 9,646
Post #29
The minimum wage there is like the equivalent to 20 US dollars or something to that effect, so yeah this isn't really shocking.
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