Post #2982952
2026-05-29 20:42 UTC
There needs to be a new salary index:
Purchasing Power adjusted Net Salary after Housing and Healthcare (PPNSHH)
That is, how much stuff can you actually buy after paying for housing and healthcare.
And yes, there are differences in how nice apartments are and how good a health insurance is, but at the end of the day the difference in housing between 30 m² and 100 m² still seems to be far less relevant than how fucking bad of a job governments and municipalities have made at keeping places affordable. Same for healthcare!
Frankly, just take the median values for housing and healthcare at a given salary level and subtract them from the net salary, and the multiply them by the purchasing power factor.
I would love to see results for different jobs across different countries, because I strongly suspect that many of the supposedly well paying places are actually just awful in reality.
Replies (2)
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@ayke@blahaj.social 2026-05-30 07:52
@Fiona@blahaj.zone it seems to me that in most places, housing is priced at the point where most people can just barely pay for it. And I think that's exactly how it works: if people have more money, landlords will increase the price to match the difference. And they can get away with that as long as there are more people wanting to live somewhere than there are houses (which is the case in most cities).
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@littlefox@gotosocial-dev.svc.0x0a.network 2026-05-29 20:48
@Fiona@blahaj.zone I'm in a very good place in that regard, well, when not out sick