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m_gloecklyesterday at 10:36 AM1 replyview on HN

Example from Germany: Employer also pays a share of health insurance, unemployment insurance, public pension and elder care insurance.

This is not visible on your payslip, i.e. if you earn 5k€ brutto, the employer has to pay these shares on top of that.


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Liongayesterday at 10:44 AM

But that is 20% not 100%. And in most non retarded countries brutto is actually brutto, because there is no need to lie to people about how much the government takes away

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