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The hit film about overworked nurses that's causing alarm across Europe

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128 points mykowebhn | 2 comments | 29 Jul 25 15:53 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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nsksl ◴[29 Jul 25 17:34 UTC] No.44726146[source]▶
Nurses in Spain make 2500-3000 euro a month, in a country where the most common salary is 1250 euro. Are they overworked? Well then they can take a pay cut so we can hire more of them.
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laurencerowe ◴[30 Jul 25 04:40 UTC] No.44730952[source]▶
Eurostat average full time salary 2022 for Spain is €31k. 2021 average nurse salary €38k.

While mean is not median the stats seem to show much less of a difference than your figures. For comparison in the US median full time wage is $66k while median nurses wages is $86k.

Nursing is a skilled occupation requiring a bachelors degree. Seems good they get paid around average wages for graduates.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/nama_10_fte__...

https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/12/14/nurses-salaries-acr...

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1. nsksl ◴[30 Jul 25 08:45 UTC] No.44732070[source]▶
Averages as well as you say are useless. You know this, so I don’t know why you bring averages up. I specifically mentioned the most common salary, not the average or the mean, which are completely skewed.

You should also research the salaries of other people who also have a “bachelor’s degree” as you call it. That is, if they get employment and don’t have to emigrate.

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2. rsynnott ◴[30 Jul 25 14:34 UTC] No.44734787[source]▶
That looks like probably median _income_ (ie would include people on social welfare, pensions, part-time workers). Data seems a bit all over the place, but most estimates of median full-time seem to be around 2000eur/month. Spanish min wage is 1184/month for a full-timer, so it's virtually impossible that median full-time income would be only 75 eur more than that.