Your university education and healthcare are free, your public transportation is ubiquitous and functional, and your retirement is a bit more secure than ours.
The method of financing these things (VAT) affects your employer's top line.
Where in the United States we get to see the money first and then have to dispense it, in Europe, it's gone before it even shows up as revenue to your employer.
To-may-to, to-mah-to.
I doubt it's strictly SWEs who are affected by this phenomenon, either. Most of your professionals probably appear to make less than their U.S. counterparts.
The method of financing these things (VAT) affects your employer's top line.
Where in the United States we get to see the money first and then have to dispense it, in Europe, it's gone before it even shows up as revenue to your employer.
To-may-to, to-mah-to.
I doubt it's strictly SWEs who are affected by this phenomenon, either. Most of your professionals probably appear to make less than their U.S. counterparts.