In Slovakia a high school teacher receives 600 € / month, before taxes. To get above 1200 € / month, one has to be a manager, financial specialist, IT specialist, etc. On the other hand, we get 25 paid vacation days.
Sure, we need to be careful not to compare apples with oranges. For example, do people receive free healthcare for their taxes? This may be difficult to evaluate, for example in Slovakia there is a nominally free health care, but sometimes one has to pay some additional costs, or pay for higher quality or sooner treatment, and it can get pretty expensive. Also the tax system is complicated (income tax, property tax, value added tax, special taxes, mandatory insurances, tax for having an employee, media tax, etc.) -- I suppose this is intentional to prevent average people from finding out how much exactly do they pay.
In Slovakia a high school teacher receives 600 € / month, before taxes. To get above 1200 € / month, one has to be a manager, financial specialist, IT specialist, etc. On the other hand, we get 25 paid vacation days.
Sure, we need to be careful not to compare apples with oranges. For example, do people receive free healthcare for their taxes? This may be difficult to evaluate, for example in Slovakia there is a nominally free health care, but sometimes one has to pay some additional costs, or pay for higher quality or sooner treatment, and it can get pretty expensive. Also the tax system is complicated (income tax, property tax, value added tax, special taxes, mandatory insurances, tax for having an employee, media tax, etc.) -- I suppose this is intentional to prevent average people from finding out how much exactly do they pay.
(Data source, unfortunately in Slovak only.)