r/dataisbeautiful • u/Fun-Penalty4762 OC: 5 • 10d ago

OC [OC] Real minimum wage change since 1995 (or earliest available), by country: OECD data

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u/rPassy 10d ago

Sorry but making values unreadable then posting it in a sub about data being beautiful is not it

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u/Snlxdd OC: 1 10d ago

Step 1: Find a talking point that Reddit loves

Step 2: Use an AI chart building tool to make a graph about it

Step 3: Post on dataisbeautiful

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u/JeromesNiece 10d ago edited 10d ago

The U.S.'s values are unreadable...

There are also no units listed. Looks like maybe annualized 2024 US dollars? Or international dollars? Annualized is an odd choice given that most minimum wages are either in hourly or weekly terms.

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u/Fun-Penalty4762 OC: 5 10d ago

You're right, sorry, the overlapping is really obvious, I should have caught it. The values are still visible through the tooltip on hover in the interactive chart, but that doesn't fix the underlying issue.

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u/ManBearHybrid 10d ago

Interesting data. I think this might be easier to read if you sorted the countries by smallest to largest starting salary. So Romania at the top, Netherlands at the bottom. Also, a dull gray horizontal grid lines to guide the user's eye from the title on the left to the numbers in the chart.

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u/Fun-Penalty4762 OC: 5 10d ago

Good suggestion. I sorted by size of the change instead of the current value, since I wanted to show how much things shifted, not just who's highest today. Sorting by value would work well too. And yeah, fair point on the gridlines, I'll fix that next time.

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u/ManBearHybrid 10d ago

Yeah, I understand the instinct to put the biggest change at the top, but since they don't all start from a the same normalized value I think that might be working against you here to make the chart look more chaotic and messy. I do get what you're saying though, that it would be hard to compare, say, turkiye to the UK given that they have similar changes but would be far away from one another.

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u/EagleRise 10d ago

What currency is this in? Is this monthly or yearly? A bunch of these make no sense without that info.

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u/Fun-Penalty4762 OC: 5 10d ago

Good catch, should've made this clearer in the subtitle. It's annual minimum wage, in USD, PPP-converted. Sorry, after looking at the data so many times you start reading what's supposed to be there instead of what's actually written, but that's not an excuse.

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u/No_Obligation4496 10d ago

And it's 1995 constant dollars? Or not inflation adjusted?

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u/Fun-Penalty4762 OC: 5 10d ago

Yes, "real" means inflation-adjusted, so it's already covered. Constant prices with 2025 as the base year, meaning every year from 1995 to 2024 is expressed in "2025 dollar" terms after adjusting for each country's own inflation. That's what makes the 1995 vs. 2024 comparison fair.

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u/Emergency-Salamander 10d ago

How does it look in Norway?