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by jonkoops 2 hours ago
Ahhh the American mindset.
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Imagine how high must those salaries be in union-prolific Euro nations, compared to the measly ones of those uncivilized Americans!
Hourly wages in Germany are not that different from the US. Depends a bit on how exactly to compare - nominal, PPP, net/gross, etc.: e.g., average nominal is about 10% higher in the US, real median is higher in Germnay, ...
>median is higher in Germnay

I cannot think of any standard by which this is true, certainly not by nominal or PPP income for either personal or household income.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income

[2]https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/median-in...

Table on page 10: https://www.boeckler.de/data/downloads/IMK/FMM%20Konferenz%2...

Not looking at households or disposable income here but at hourly wages.

Overlooking that we are comparing the richest EU state to all 50 US states, doesn't that further the point that having unions is are at best uninfluential.
No. (And comparing one country to another seems fine anyway.) Hard to make the case that unions in Germany have had no effects on wages, working time, etc.
Real wages are higher in every EU country with strong unions.
Your zero-content bias is on display, but I'm not in the least American. If I were American I probably wouldn't have seen so much union nonsense.