Annual Salary/Education Comparison

I would like to provide some statistical approximations which I’ve gathered from the internet in order to present a rough comparison between Finland’s average salaries with that of the United States. The people of Finland on average gross about 37,000 dollars a year in comparison to the United States which on average its citizens gross approximately 47,000 dollars a year. The United States is a much richer country than Finland; however, because Finland has a smaller population the average does not account for as many people as the United States. These statistics are pertaining to GDP per capita which is an average based on population size http://www.worldsrichestcountries.com/. From this data I have concluded that the standard of living in Finland is probably analogous to that of the United States.
Finland values education, like the United States, and secures equal opportunities for every resident in the country. Legislation provides for compulsory education and the right to free pre-primary and basic education. Most other qualifying education is also free of charges for the students, including postgraduate education at universities http://www.edu.fi/english/SubPage.asp?path=500,4699. Being that technology is one of Finland’s most prominent resources, second to forestry, I presume that the positive trend and promotion of education throughout the country plays a role in ensuring the successful future of this resource.
Although Finland isn’t a particularly large country in comparison to the World’s larger nations I feel because they value education and supply free rights to education to their citizens they instill value into their people which may correspond to the decent average salary exhibited by Finland. I believe that possibly some of the countries that don’t have a very high average salary income may consequently not have much emphasis on education as well.