[BoppreH]

Minimum wage is not a consistent measure and doesn't even have the same meaning everywhere.

And food availability varies too. I would probably have to make twice my current salary to eat Chinese food everyday.

But if you went further in your comparison you would probably conclude that you would make many times more money than them at the same job in the US. But that's because its two different countries, not because Microsoft is underpaying employees overseas, which is the point.

Though your calculations were way better than the author's simple currency conversions.

[eru]

And we don't even have a minimum wage in Germany. (I don't know why Americans are so fond of it.)