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    [OC] Countries with higher wages work less hours
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    [OC] Countries with higher wages work less hours

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    2. latinometrics on

      🇲🇽 Mexican employees on average work more than their counterparts in almost every other OECD country.

      Does this hard work translate to higher wages? No it does not.

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      Sources: [wages](https://data-explorer.oecd.org/vis?tm=wages&pg=0&snb=121&vw=tl&df%5Bds%5D=dsDisseminateFinalDMZ&df%5Bid%5D=DSD_EARNINGS%40AV_AN_WAGE&df%5Bag%5D=OECD.ELS.SAE&df%5Bvs%5D=1.0&dq=CHL%2BCRI%2BMEX%2BCOL..USD_PPP..Q..&pd=2000%2C&to%5BTIME_PERIOD%5D=false), [work hours](https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/hours-worked.html)

      Tools: Rawgraphs & Figma

    5. userishighaf on

      Working hours in India 🇮🇳 so extensive & the pay so less that the point would be way off the scatter graph

    7. magneticanisotropy on

      Too bad you didn’t add Singapore to this chart. At 2255 hrs/year, it’s right up there with Mexico.

      Meanwhile, they are at about 82k (PPP) for average annual wages, almost identical to the US.

      Quite the outlier here.

    8. slayerbizkit on

      I thought Japan would be way further to the right. Don’t they have a workaholic culture ?

    9. yaboy_jesse on

      Why in annual work hours and not just hours per week? It makes this graph significantly harder to interpret

    12. Unikatze on

      Chile recently lowered their work hours too.

      When I lived there I was working 45 hours a week (48 at work if you included the 30 minute lunch break), and made peanuts.

    13. hoodie09 on

      Would like to see this after “cost of living” is subtracted. Im an Australian/Canadian living in Canada. Both are top 10 in quality of life, but im sick of being stuck inside for 4 months of the year in both Countries. Where a good place to spend Dec-April?

    14. Kragius on

      Latvian salary is not correct. Mean salary is 1623 in 2024, with median salary 1293 eur. So actually it is around 20.3k usd, not 39k.

    16. Bootziscool on

      Why we Americans always a fuckin outlier on these sorts of graphs.

      I mean I know why but… What the fuck.

    17. LEANiscrack on

      The Swedish one can not be correct.. 
      30k is the median salary which id argue is still a bit ok high. 
      30 x 12 = 360k 
      360m is like 30k $ 
      And that is w/o taxes.. 

    18. N8ig4ll on

      OECD bullshit numbers, again! OECD clearly states that their numbers for work hours per year are not comparable. Here is the Salsa: [https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/hours-worked.html](https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/hours-worked.html)

      “The data are intended for comparisons of trends over time; they are unsuitable for comparisons of the level of average annual hours of work for a given year, because of differences in sources and methods of calculation.”

      As an example Germany currently has, as of 2023 34,4 h per week and therefore 1788,8 h per year on average
      Salsa: [https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Arbeit/Arbeitsmarkt/Qualitaet-Arbeit/Dimension-3/woechentliche-arbeitszeitl.html](https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Arbeit/Arbeitsmarkt/Qualitaet-Arbeit/Dimension-3/woechentliche-arbeitszeitl.html)

    19. notwhatyouthinkmam on

      I’d argue with mandated overtime, less vacation time, we americans are closer to the 2k mark than 1.8

    22. JetreL on

      I had teams of Colombian engineers and they get 2 Mondays off a month. Either our legal and country manager were scamming us or these figures may be a bit skewed.