Originally Posted by NALEM

I agree with you.

I too was in Switzerland, and found it to be very expensive. My first taste of Switzerland was 30 + years ago when I a teenager, arriving to the central train station. I saw a McDonalds menu board, and a Big Mac Combo was about 12-13 CHF. Visiting a basic family style restaurant, a dinner plate of grilled chicken with pommes frites (french fries) was approximately 25 CHF, and the coffee was another 5 CHF. My stop at a market costed me another 100 CHF, and I walked out with two bags containing mostly dry pasta, some bottled water, vegetables, a kilo of meat, etc.

Why I write this? It was damn expensive, even on my salary, and learned to cross the border to purchase most items outside of Switzerland. And therefore cannot imagine minimum wage being less than 20-25 hourly. From my own professional experience, I found the Germans, Austrians and Swiss to be efficient, hard working people. They always got the work done on time (if not sooner) and with little to no mistakes.