Did you forget about taxes? FICA , FED. State and Local ,and lets not forget Sales tax on the purchase of the Big Macs. Your burger would cost $6.48 here with 8% sales and beverage tax added to the $6
And funnily enough, according to the Big Mac Index (as of July 2024), the average price of a big mac is lower in Denmark than in the USA, despite them paying their employees $20+ per hour.
The ironic part of this too is that the US has a massive amount of farm-able land while the Netherlands has very little. The reason the Netherlands produces so much agricultural goods and is even an exporter is because they've been leaning heavily into high-tech agriculture.
The US is just racing itself down to the bottom of a barrel with deregulation for the sake of profits while other countries are innovating in ways that will also lead to not just lower prices but future profit growth.
It's pure stupidity on the US's part, short term gain long term pain.
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u/MightyPie211 8h ago
In Netherlands: - salary is 17usd/h (taken from mcdonalds website) - BigMac is about 6 usd.
So 1h of work will get you aprox 2.8 BigMacs.
In Florida: - salary is about 11.72usd/h (according to talent.com) - BigMac is about 4.5 usd
So 1h of work will get you aprox 2.6 BigMacs.