Brian, you are right, these numbers for UK, USA, Ireland and Australia don’t take taxation, health care and pension into account, as I don’t know how much that would be in those countries. That’s why I had to work on ‘before tax’ numbers. And I made it clear in the post. Actually I was hoping that people living in those countries could give us an estimate numbers about that (tax, health care, pension).

But I did put info how much it is in Poland. Before it’s 7,87PLN/h. After tax, health care and pension only 5,90PLN/h stays in Polish wallet. So to make it clear, the government takes about 25% from us for all of that!!! Tax is 18% but all those other things are extremely expensive too and take about 7% more. I really doubt that they take so much from those living in the mentioned countries. I am not even mentioning all the social benefits you get from your governments, which are way bigger than ours.

So actually even more money stay in your wallets after taxation and the difference between our countries would be even bigger I am afraid. That is the sad truth (for us of course).