On: Nurses Sound Alarm as 'Uber for Nursing' Apps Push to Deregulate Healthcare

[skybrian]

I don't really know, but according to one graph, US nursing salaries are second only to Luxembourg:

https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/2025/11/health-at-a-gla...

[Lammy → skybrian]

Red herring; high salaries are fine for people who actually directly interact with patients https://hmpi.org/2026/07/10/the-growth-in-healthcare-adminis...

[responder41 → skybrian]

Overall US salaries are also second only to Luxembourg (https://www.statista.com/chart/13093/the-countries-with-the-...)

[damascus_kei → skybrian]

Breaking: Richest Country has higher wages.

[7777777phil → skybrian]

Ratio to average wages is 0.9 last with Switzerland.

[croes → 7777777phil]

US not UK

[joe_the_user → skybrian]

If you look carefully at the chart, US nurse salaries are high because US salaries are high. The ratio of US nurse salaries to average US salaries is nearly the same as the OECD average.

[skybrian → joe_the_user]

Yes, it’s not specific to nursing. Labor costs are often high in the US, which goes a long way to explain why labor-intensive services cost more in the US, relative to other goods and services.