The internet is weighing in on a viral post asking "Are Americans OK?" regarding the country's work culture.
The post is found on the popular Reddit forum r/antiwork. The original poster (OP), u/fantails-dragonflies, has earned over 44,200 upvotes and 11,200 comments for sharing their confusion.
"I live in New Zealand, and while it's not perfect we have a minimum wage of $21.40 per hour, 4 weeks annual leave, 12 public holidays & 10 days sick leave per year mandated by law. We still have labour shortages and bad employers but all workers have rights and no one can be fired without cause (after 90 days). The posts here are enough to give me nightmares," u/fantails-dragonflies wrote.
Minimum wage in the United States is at $7.25 an hour federally—though many states and even some cities have passed laws raising the minimum wage in their jurisdictions. The figure cited by u/fantails-dragonflies, NZ$21.40 per hour, applies to adult workers in the country, and works out to $13.53 per hour in American currency.
This would put New Zealand near the top of countries with the highest minimum wage, according to a chart by Statista. Though New Zealand isn't on the list, Australia tops the chart with a minimum wage of the equivalent of $12.60 in American currency, based on rates in 2019. The U.S. was ninth on the list, out of 12 countries. France, Germany and the Netherlands followed Australia, with the U.S., Israel, Turkey and Russia at the bottom of the list.
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