See here
BBC News - Where are you on the global pay scale?
Out of 72 countries the DR ranks as the ninth poorest.
BBC News - Where are you on the global pay scale?
Out of 72 countries the DR ranks as the ninth poorest.
Haiti is not on the list. At least the DR made it!I've never seen something like that before, it is a good tool. Now my problem is we've just moved away from the Republic, we now have to move back as I had no idea we were so wealthy.
Haiti is not on the list. At least the DR made it!
Wages can be low if the government spends money on homes, schools, hospitals, defence etc.
pi2
i know many people who make millions of pesos a month. they hike up the average a bit. and something tells me that if ALL dominicans declared whate they REALLY make it would rocket even further...
Wages can be low if the government spends money on homes, schools, hospitals, defence etc.
pi2
and something there ain't working right, i put dominican republic and wages pre-tax in local currency as 39.000 (roughly 1.000 dollars, right?) and it says: "your wages is $1.639. wtf?
if you look at the tab "how it's worked out", it explains this.
the $ are not normal us$, but 'purchasing power parity dollars', PPP$.
1,000,000 pesos a month is about $26,000 a month or $$315K a year. The only "wage earners" I know of in the DR that make that kind of money play in the MLB.
1,000,000 pesos a month is about $26,000 a month or $$315K a year. The only "wage earners" I know of in the DR that make that kind of money play in the MLB.
Pi2,
Which countries that inhabit the list have both high and successful social spending and low wages?