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‘Average’ American won’t take a new job for less than $74k as salary expectations - particularly among younger workers - hit record high, fed survey finds
Daily Mail UK ^ | 21 Dec 2022 | ALEX OLIVEIRA

Posted on 12/21/2022 9:57:09 PM PST by blueplum

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I'm guessing that's before benefits?
1 posted on 12/21/2022 9:57:09 PM PST by blueplum
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Young people appear to think they should become internet billionaires overnight. Delusional, narcissistic.


2 posted on 12/21/2022 9:59:18 PM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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Well of course, they’ve been taught that if owners won’t pay
you $75k per year, they are evil purveyors of and proof CRT
is real.

Talk about a lost generation, at least in part...


3 posted on 12/21/2022 10:02:24 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands)
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Good luck with that! Or Welcome to MacDonalds’. You have no experience, studied Wokeism and sexual habits of the Australian Wombat, and you dress like shitz. BOHICA. Here’s a one person tent to live in while you contemplate paying off your student loan. Loser.


4 posted on 12/21/2022 10:05:03 PM PST by Equine1952
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$25/hour?


5 posted on 12/21/2022 10:11:08 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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25 dollars an hour is only 48K a year. (Before taxes) Pretty crappy wage today.


6 posted on 12/21/2022 10:16:15 PM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 democratic )
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$36-37/hour


7 posted on 12/21/2022 10:16:24 PM PST by kiryandil (put yer vote in the box, chump. HARHARHARHAR)
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To: Repeal The 17th

More like $35/hr.


8 posted on 12/21/2022 10:17:10 PM PST by TomGuy
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If it takes $75,000 a year for a company to fill a position, then the person making that $75k is earning the market rate.


9 posted on 12/21/2022 10:18:58 PM PST by Round Earther
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To: Repeal The 17th

Average work year hours equals 2080 hours. So:

2080 X ? $/ hour = Yearly Earnings + Benefit’s (might be negotiable)

$74k is pretty lofty starting wage. Just saying.


10 posted on 12/21/2022 10:21:28 PM PST by Equine1952
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this is the wage inflation that Powell is willing to sacrifice the entire economy to inhibit.

Last thing on earth to go up and now under complete assault by the Fed.

Can’t make this stuff up.
*If one doubts it, there is plenty of material out there.
I was very skeptical but the material clearly delineates wage inflation is the target. ie recent headline-
“Powell puts US pay hikes at heart of Fed’s 2023 inflation” fight


11 posted on 12/21/2022 10:28:46 PM PST by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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It’s a poll and I doubt it’s has any validity.

“The average personal income in the U.S. is $63,214. The median income in the U.S. is $44,225. The average American annual real wage was $67,521 in 2020. The average U.S. household income is $87,864.”

The median income is $44k. Someone has been taking jobs less than $74k. A lot of someones. There are some high earners who skew the averages up.


12 posted on 12/21/2022 10:31:55 PM PST by DannyTN
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That might sound like a high rate, but with Biden inflation, it is not. At that rate, allowing 25% for all taxes and deductions, my rent, for example, is over 50% of the net income.

Net pay around $4,568 per month

Rent $2,500

Gas and electric, $250

Renter Insurance, $75

Car payment, $400

Auto insurance, $125

Internet, $75

Mobile phone, $50

Health insurance, $250

Auto gas, $250

Food & Misc, $250

Water and sewer, $50

Garbage, $50

That's $4,325

And doesn't include entertainment, clothes, maintenance, and so much more. Yes, round numbers, but it is not pretty and doesn't leave much for savings, rainy-day fund, or retirement.

And now, they want everyone to buy an electric car. Yep, that Tesla will cost around $1,000 a month or more, which is not affordable. What do you give up?

Maybe the car, which saves payment, insurance, maintenance, and fuel? Ride a bike? In the wintery snow?

13 posted on 12/21/2022 10:32:29 PM PST by Reno89519 (DeSantis or Anyone But Trump in 2024. Time for Trump to Retire, Spend Time With His Family.)
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The median wage is creeping up to my current wage, and there’s no increases in sight. I am so screwed.


14 posted on 12/21/2022 10:34:16 PM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: DennisR

One issue is that companies are no longer meritocracies.

30 years ago a kid would start in the mail room and work their way up to CEO.

Now companies hire a kid from the right social group with the right degree and immediately make them a junior executive.

If you start with a junior job you are expected to remain in a servile position for the next 40 years.

So there is some logic as to why you should try hard to start at the top.


15 posted on 12/21/2022 10:37:01 PM PST by Renfrew
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The median wage is creeping up to my current wage, and there’s no increases in sight. I am so screwed.

A lot of us are feeling wage compression where the entry pay rises quickly while our pay roughly stagnates thus diluting our relative earnings. And now we have inflation rate surpassing our annual increases. It’s a mess. Let’s Go Brandon indeed… to hell in a hand basket.

16 posted on 12/21/2022 10:45:12 PM PST by newzjunkey (How does GA end up with 2 Dem senators & 100% GOP statewide officials??? UGH )
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https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4118116/posts


17 posted on 12/21/2022 11:00:56 PM PST by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerorum delenda sunt.)
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it makes no sense to me. I read an unrelated article that claimed 80 million Americans (1/4 of the pop) were low-income. So who’s paying these kind of wages? Must be big city with a minimum masters’ degree?


18 posted on 12/21/2022 11:05:28 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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If you look at inflation since 1890, when a laborer could own a nice house and afford to have the wife stay home and have a servant, $74 an hour is cheap.

Should be more like $90 or more starting wage.

Salaries for CEOs and upper management have more than kept up with inflation while the average employee is left out.

Percentage pay increases have caused part of this problem.

This should change to flat dollar increases.

19 posted on 12/21/2022 11:25:29 PM PST by Mogger
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You are correct....polls don’t reflect reality in 99-percent of cases.


20 posted on 12/21/2022 11:33:47 PM PST by pepsionice
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