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ummonklast Wednesday at 10:42 PM2 repliesview on HN

Americans earn more than Swiss people after taxes according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c...


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jltsirenyesterday at 6:31 AM

Those numbers mean disposable household income divided by the square root of household size. American households are unusually large for a developed country, and measures like that overestimate individual incomes relative to countries with smaller households.

LtWorflast Wednesday at 10:54 PM

And after paying insurance?

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