What is the prize of life?

Kimmo Huosionmaa

The costs of the life are one thing, what are relative. That means that the prize of the product doesn't tell everything about how expensive it is. Also, the salary or actually average salaries of the country are influential about the prize of the products. But as we know the average salaries are not telling about the salary level of the country.  Here we would not mention the benefits, what are belonging to some positions in business life.


One is free living in the top metropolis around the world and the free cars and travels to those places. So, in this case, the payment in money can be very low, but the benefits like the right to use the company's flats for own purposes, and free flight tickets around the world are rising for that salary. Also, free use of the company's cars and free gasoline for them is the very big benefit, and of course nobody mention, if there is the free parking place for those cars in some parking houses.


The top salaries can pull the average salary higher than it really is, and this happens in the cases, where the top salaries are class of millions of Euros, and the rest of salaries are far away from those top payments for business leaders. But when we are going back to the question, how expensive is my homeland, we must realize that the necessary payments are making the influence for the prize of the life. If the electricity, fuel, clothes and other necessary bills are high, even the high salaries are not giving much buying power for people.


And if the person lives in the country, where the four seasons are totally different than in Florida, the clothes are also necessary payment. If the transportation payments are high, the price of products is also high. But the shop would not get very much money from that product.  The high salaries are not actually telling anything about the lifestyle of people, because the taxes can also be high.


The low taxes mean that society or the state would not pay something, what would the society pay in the nations, what have high taxes. Then the costs of living are high, would that mean, that the salaries are not actually so high what people think about they are. The necessary payments mean, the payments what we must make. And is the salary low or high is the complicated thing because big houses cause big payments.


Also, the cold winters cause the rise of the electric and fuel bills. One way to meter the level of salary is to calculate how much money is left for fun or unnecessary payments after the necessary payments. Here we are facing the situation, that the good salary doesn't mean the high class of life. The high salaries at the top of the society would pump the average salaries higher, and if the calculations are made only by using sums that would be very much different than the real difference for salaries.


The average payments should be calculated by the connecting to formulas the number of group of the people, what gets some salaries. That means the number of cleaners are connecting in those calculations and also the how many people would get the highest prize in the country. That would tell if some group gets far higher salaries than other. Let's take the fictional state, where  3% of individuals gets 3 million euros per month, and the rest of the persons earn 1000 Euros per month the first 3% would pull the average payments higher than they are.