Discussion: Minimum Wage
Leojane Zhu
Admin changes the rule of working.I DON'T LIKE IT AT ALL!However we have to accept it. So sad 🙁
无头鸡改变了经济规则。无头鸡必须死!
Economy of eWorld keeps crashing these days. Prices down and wages down. However, prices and wages in our country seem a little more stable than outside. Food price is still not cheap while the wages are really low comparing with the world average.
e世界的经济最近在持续崩溃中。物价下跌,人工下跌。不过呢,NK的物价和人工水平虽然跌了,不过也没外面跌得那么厉害。食物还是比较不便宜的,工资依然很低。
I think it is time for us to discuss the minimum wage. As you know the current minimum wage is 1 KPW. Since company owners can work for themselves, they can offer themselves minium wages. This is a way to skip tax, I'm afraid. The more companies they have, the more tax evasion it will be.
我认为现在该讨论一下最低工资问题了。我们现在的最低工资是1KPW,工厂主可以给自己开最低工资来逃税。
So let's raise it up. There're two good reasons:
所以,应该考虑提高最低工资了。两点好处:
1.Company owners can't skip tax too much.
1.工厂主逃税逃不了太多。
2.Working people can be guaranteed when the economy condition is not so good.
2.打工族在经济状况不好的时候至少能得到一点保障。
The question is about the number to be set.
问题是该设多少。
The average salary of our country is 8.67KPW recently. According to the tool site http://erepdata.org/ most of our citizens are above lv 22, which means they're supposed to be at least lv7 of economy skill. Looking at the job market, the lowest pay of available offer for lv7 is 7 KPW.
我们目前平均工资是8.67KPW,根据工具网站显示,公民主要分布在22级以上,意味着他们工作等级至少有7了。看了下劳工市场的7级最低工资offer是7KPW的样子。
I think a minimum wage of 6 KPW is acceptable. What do you think?
我觉着6KPW的最低工资可以接受,你觉得如何呢?
Please leave your comment. It is quite important to our country. Please vote and shout this article. Let more citizens join the discussion.
请留下你的观点。因为这对国家来说很重要,请vote和shout本文,让更多的公民参与讨论。
Thanks for reading.
感谢阅读。
Comments
不如涨VAT
@James Kim
涨VAT对于自给自足的工厂主没啥太大影响吧?对于打工族来说可就郁闷了。
I don't think it good to increase VAT. It affects little to those company owners who can feed themselves. But to those working people, it is not so fair.
If you raise minimume wage, the companies will raise the cost of their product. They will also reduce the salary of the higher end workers to compensate.
同意!
各个国家也都会相应作出调整的,平均为8+的话,4~5的低保我觉得可以接受
@Warboss Sharp
I think company owners ususally pay salary according to workers' productivity. This is a consensus around the e-world. If they reduce the salary of the higher workers, workers may leave the company; if they raise price at their own willing, they'll lose market.
In fact, raising minimum wage won't affect too much to the companies which own higher level workers. The workers get their deserved pay.
Raising minimum wage is avoid tax evasion and protect workers from too much exploitation.
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Just the fact that newbies' productivity worth less then 6kpw and if it is the min. salary no one except charity company would offer jobs to them and history of the time ruled by russia would repeated and new citizen can't start their elife in nk.
and to those who own their company, they don't need to pay any salary tax when they work. at the same time, vat is needed when they want to take out their product from their company via market.
also, in current environment i dont think factory owners would join their own company because doing so would made them can't work again as a manager in the company.
涨VAT 应该也会影响自给自足的人吧,除非老板有办法不通过marketing能拿到自己的产品,作为一个双击党没有当过老板的人,真心请教一下,到底有没有办法不通过marketing拿到自己工厂的产品呢?
@c933103
I can't agree that.
We're lack of labor for months. Even newbies are valuable to local companies. And the new players grow really fast nowadays. A good minimum wage won't hurt them.
I'm not quite sure about VAT.
Well, let's hear more voices. : )
so the min. wage should be lower then 5.22kpw IMHO because that is the current highest salary offer in NK SK1 job market.
p.s. just check the job market, and find that the job offer for guru* people in NK provide more salary then eC's job offer at same level. NK highest 1-star guru* job offer is 19.Xkpw, whereas eC highest level 1 guru* job offer only provide 15.Xcny.
@c933103
So is 5KPW OK? IMHO, 1 KPW is really too low.
Not long before, 1KPW = 0.014G, 1CNY = 0.02G, the highest salary is still not that high. It is another prove of our lacking of labor. eChina has too many high level workers, the salaries for guru* are not that high.
you are thinking for this country.
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Raising the MW only will make prices go up. This meassure won't help against tax evasion, It even will make this problem worse.
@Strasser
Raising MW makes price up only if companies pay workers with MW. This is not the situation in our country.
@strasser, rising min. wage doesn't mean rising salary. so there aren't really that much relationship between.
OK, I realised that we don't have noobs nomore, my mistake. Anyway, I would like to pint this fro the article:
Since company owners can work for themselves, they can offer themselves minium wages. This is a way to skip tax, I'm afraid. The more companies they have, the more tax evasion it will be.
Therefore what we are doing here is give more money to the managers increasing tax evasion.
I think 4 or 5 kpw is suitable.
@Strasser
When they pay themselves with mw, they skip income tax. Raising mw will save some loss.
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first of all, it is proved that when company manager work for their company, no salary tax needed to pay (as stated by taiwan ministry of education), it is game's design and we cant change it. And increasing min. wage just mean, if some boss had discussed with their employee, and paying as few as possible salary via in-game system and remaining part of the salary via donation so that part of salary does not need to pay tax, the part of salary needed to passes through in-game system and thus need to pay tax would then be more, and therefore NK government can get more tax income. and the game's min. wage is just a law that ask factory owner to pay at least n dollar to their employee instead of government subside at least n dollar as salary.
5 kapows???????? Serously, you're out of your mind...
5 kpw of MW will increase all wages and therefore we will hae a increase of prices, inflaction si called, and works in RL as well in eR. Sorry dudes, but I thik this measure is a huge mistake.
Huge inflaction we will get from this, heard my words.
MW won't affect all other wages. Wages are paid according to productivity. I think c933103 explained it clearly.
the math goes like this, if 5kpw are the wage paid for 0 skill, then for 1 would be 6, for 2 7, and so foth (is a simplyfied version of the history, but I hope you get it). More money put by the bussinessmen/women, means that the producction will have more cost, therefore products would rise.
Stop arguing Leojane and Strasser! You are both correct. But we must find the best solution for the current situation
The problem is really difficult to solve right now, because none of us have any clue about what's going to happend. The thing that I would do at the moment is to raise import taxes all arround, but this is not the matter of this discussion.
You don't need 10 workers anymore to have the best productivity. Hiring a newbie with a higher minimum wage would means employing this newbie is a net loss for the company. Result: newbies simply won't be employed.
Thank you lejina for putting some reason here, even that here we have few noobs with this meassure will have even less.
Yes ,but how can we integrate new-born players. They simple can`t develope because they are not able to find any jobs at all.
Then lets improve our economy, lets raise import taxes, lets protect our national economy and bussines.
"Yes ,but how can we integrate new-born players."
An active government with people seeking out new players.
Companies can pick up newbies by offering better incentives. One idea is provide them a lower wage, but give them daily food to make up the salary. Newbies can get gold from maps, but they can't exchange that gold for currency until a later level.
"They simple can`t develope because they are not able to find any jobs at all."
Except that there's plenty of jobs available, and the Ministry of Employment exists to make sure that level 1, 2, and 3 skill jobs always exist. They may pay minimum wage, but at least they won't lose out on hard worker medals and skill-ups.
"Then lets improve our economy, lets raise import taxes, lets protect our national economy and bussines. "
Only certain taxes need to be raised.
Import taxes on popular manufactured goods (like food) are worth having slightly higher import taxes on. However, cases like grain need to have either the minimum, or a very low tax in order to make sure there are plenty of resources to keep our companies active.
I would consider raising Income Taxes instead of Import Taxes.
"Minimum Wage"
Raising the minimum wage too high is dangerous because it sets the other skills' salaries at a rising minimum, a bit like Strasser mentioned.
You need salaries to be flexible because the value of everything changes. If the admins would stop screwing around with the economy module, we could figure something out. At this time however, its too risky.
Besides, newbies level out of the lower skills quickly, so setting a minimum wage higher for people who will only be that skill level less than a week, is really only hurting the economy.
Newbies need guidance, not wages.
I want to say to Kaige's statement. I don't think we should ever have an instance where Import tax is LOWER then income tax. That is why i think we should rebalance our tax across the board.
Companies aren't going to cut the wages of their experienced workers t compensate for the minimum wage raise at all. I (the lvl 11 Guru) should know this better than anybody. Why would you hire (and overpay) and unskilled worker when you can hire a select few highly experienced workers? Raising minimum wage is only going to hurt us in our current not so amazing economic state. This is because employers simply will not hire unskilled works if they have to pay them more than what they will produce. No employer wants to lose money, and that is precisely what this will do. So now unemployment will rise, and our population will ultimately decrease. That means less citizens, which means less taxpayers, which also by the way means we the government will have less annual income. All in all, a minimum wage raise is not a good idea.
Case Closed
min wage
eUSA 1 usd
eChina 0.8 cny
eROC 1 twd
eIran 1.6 irr
so we needn't change it.
1. MW have no relation to tax
2. If MW level is below the salary usually offered to level 1 problem, then that change shouldn't cause any trouble except those dont want to pay tax, because usual people's wage, even newbie, still higher then MW, so there aren't going to be any wage adjustment.
*i mean MW have no relationship with tax rate.