{"id":53293,"date":"2023-11-25T13:23:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T13:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=53293"},"modified":"2023-11-25T13:23:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T13:23:16","slug":"how-uk-compares-to-europe-for-wages-and-cost-of-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/11\/25\/how-uk-compares-to-europe-for-wages-and-cost-of-living\/","title":{"rendered":"How UK compares to Europe for wages and cost of living"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div id=\"attachment_48873\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48873\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48873\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Department-for-Work-and-Pensions-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Department-for-Work-and-Pensions-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Department-for-Work-and-Pensions-770x513.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Department-for-Work-and-Pensions-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Department-for-Work-and-Pensions-360x240.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-48873\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">London England &#8211; June 4, 2019: Department for Work and Pensions office sign London UK<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">T<\/span>he UK ranks fifth when it comes to the highest minimum wage in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/world\/uk-state-pension-compare-europe-2773342\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Europe<\/a> but has among the highest costs of living on the continent. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/how-uk-compares-to-europe-for-wages-and-cost-of-living\/ar-AA1kv3rR?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=LCTS&amp;cvid=2a7a1c250514484a98d870113d68b8f8&amp;ei=43\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The UK ranks fifth when it comes to the highest minimum wage in\u00a0Europe but has among the highest costs of living on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-53293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/pension-money.webp","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53294,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53293\/revisions\/53294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}