France: $25.10/hour; USA: $24.60/hour

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French: The Most Productive People In The World

http://static8.businessinsider.com/~~/f?id=4a8d8103fd257223681678f6

France has $36,500 GDP/Capita and works 1,453 hours per year. This equates to a GDP/Capita/Hour of $25.10. Americans, on the other hand, have $44,150 GDP/Capita but work 1,792 hours per year. Thus Americans only achieve $24.60 of GDP/Capita/Hour.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/are-the-french-the-most-productive-people-in-the-world-2009-8#ixzz1bQHBywIs

[InRareForm]

2009 thread

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yes, as UCA has laid off millions, US productivity per capita, not real output, soared.

[Wild Cobra]

French: The Most Productive People In The World

http://static8.businessinsider.com/~~/f?id=4a8d8103fd257223681678f6

France has $36,500 GDP/Capita and works 1,453 hours per year. This equates to a GDP/Capita/Hour of $25.10. Americans, on the other hand, have $44,150 GDP/Capita but work 1,792 hours per year. Thus Americans only achieve $24.60 of GDP/Capita/Hour.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/are-the-french-the-most-productive-people-in-the-world-2009-8#ixzz1bQHBywIs
Now I didn't question the French numbers, but had to come back and analyze the US numbers.

Annual to hourly wages are based on 2080 hrs/year, or 52 x 40. 2080 - 1792 = 288, or 36 days off/year.

I think you would be hard pressed to show us the average worker gets 4 weeks of paid vacation a year and 8 holidays paid.

Is this a comparison of government employees?

[Drachen]

I would assume that this study would take all us employees into account and not just FT workers.

[Wild Cobra]

I would assume that this study would take all us employees into account and not just FT workers.
So that assumption would also make assuming the hourly math was perfect for 4 weeks of vacations and 8 holiday days, is just coincidence?

[Drachen]

So that assumption would also make assuming the hourly math was perfect for 4 weeks of vacations and 8 holiday days, is just coincidence?

you are freaking out because one calculation came out with a whole number?

[Wild Cobra]

you are freaking out because one calculation came out with a whole number?
Not freaking out. It could be coincidence. It just fits so well for the 4 week paid vacation job.

[Drachen]

So that assumption would also make assuming the hourly math was perfect for 4 weeks of vacations and 8 holiday days, is just coincidence?

besides, the way you are calculating it the 36 days would be vacation days (or holidays). Therefore it would be more like 6 weeks vacation and 6 holidays or 7 weeks and 1 holiday....... (split them however you want)

[Wild Cobra]

besides, the way you are calculating it the 36 days would be vacation days (or holidays). Therefore it would be more like 6 weeks vacation and 6 holidays or 7 weeks and 1 holiday....... (split them however you want)
Oh shit, you're right.

I had a brain fart. 4 weeks is 20 work days, not 28. Didn't you see the smoke coming out my ears?




yadda yadda yadda, WC fires up his fog machine, blowing it out of his earsWell, at least I'm not blowing it out my ass.

[Drachen]

ah, got ya.

[TeyshaBlue]

A 50¢ spread. They've got an awesome subway system. We can purify our own water.
Its a push.

[Agloco]

http://static8.businessinsider.com/~~/f?id=4a8d8103fd257223681678f6

I feel more "productive"....yes.

Ahem.

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It's Not Just Unemployment -- New Data Shows Working Americans' Pay Is "Awful"

the average wage -- overall wage income divided by the number of working people -- was just under $40k, the median wage -- the one right in the middle of the pack -- was just $26,363. That's because so much income has been redistributed to workers at the top of the pile that almost two-thirds of Americans make less than that wage in the middle.

That works out to $507 a week, the lowest level, after adjusting for inflation, since 1999.

The number of Americans with any work fell again last year, down by more than a half million from 2009 to less than 150.4 million...

Average pay peaked in 2007 at $40,764, which is $15 a week more than average weekly wage income in 2010.

The number of workers making $1 million or more rose to almost 94,000 from 78,000 in 2009. However, that was still below some earlier years, including 2007, when more than 110,000 workers made more than $1 million each.

At the very top, the number of workers making more than $50 million rose in 2010 to 81, up from 72 the year before.

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/684196/it%27s_not_just_unemployment_--_new_data_shows_working_americans%27_pay_is_%22awf ul%22/#paragraph5

So 50% of Americans make $26,363 or less. $13/hour, and it's their own damn, lazy slacker fault. :)

Amusing how right-wingers think govt, or any, workers getting 3 or more weeks holiday year is some kind of crime. In their world of slave workers, 2 weeks is the absolute max permissable, and fuck you if you get sick, no paid sick leave.