this is a good point actually because it's usually used as a comparison metric or something, so the higher minimum wage countries are shown as superior and any further nuance is ignored.

i suppose median income is the most correct level, although in places like Bulgaria, almost all the economic activity and money is being made in the capital so statistics get skewed 

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Help me understand minimum wage logic better

One thing that never ceases to amaze me is how people conflate wages with minimum wages.

They will say a country is unattractive, because its minimum wage is low.
Until not long ago Germany didn't have a minimum wage and somehow people from minimum waged countries migrated there for economic reasons. It surely wasn't for a zero wage, but for a market one, which was higher than in their minimum waged country.
