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I spent two weeks delivering for Uber Eats and made $4.40 per hour

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383 points imartin2k | 2 comments | 13 May 17 10:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.574s | source
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valuearb ◴[13 May 17 19:06 UTC] No.14332457[source]▶
"The middle man PaySalary, which formally recruits Uber Eats bike couriers, then deducts employer fees as well as an administrative fee of 3.3 percent.

A statuary holiday entitlement of 12 percent is added.

After this, a 30 percent tax is deducted.

To summarize: If I am guaranteed a payment of 300 SEK, that translates to an hourly pay after fees, but before taxes, of just over 150 SEK plus holiday entitlement. That’s just short of 17 dollars an hour"

Why do Europeans brag about how great their governments are, then bitch about the mad taxes they have to pay for them?

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1. detritus ◴[13 May 17 19:17 UTC] No.14332509[source]▶
To be fair, it's my impression (as a Brit) that Nordics rarely 'bitch about the mad taxes'. Such concerns are often doled out by those in countries who don't feel they get a good return on their investment — the Mediterranean countries and higher earners in the likes of France and the UK.
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2. valuearb ◴[13 May 17 20:55 UTC] No.14332967[source]▶
In this case the author was complaining about how low the aftertax earnings were, without realizing he was bitching about how high the taxes were.