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Have you seen what a house costs in the Bay Area? Try about $400k for something that is a "fixer-upper" in a reasonably nice neighborhood where the people actually water their lawns and don't leave junk cars lying around. I do believe the metric is 3x annual income is what you can afford for a house? So 3x $120k is $360k, or just enough to maybe get your foot in the door of something you would actually want to own.

At the same time, I wonder how many $15,000 trash cans are sitting in the corporate offices?

God forbid that the people who ACTUALLY DO THE WORK should be able to afford a place to live! GOD FORBID!

You've been played.

Because of a fraction of a percent of CEO's have proven to be corrupt, you've turned your back on your free market allegience to managers over unions?

You're too emotional to be a conservative...wear your brown shirt proudly commie.

Have you seen what a house costs in the Bay Area? Try about $400k for something that is a "fixer-upper" in a reasonably nice neighborhood where the people actually water their lawns and don't leave junk cars lying around..... God forbid that the people who ACTUALLY DO THE WORK should be able to afford a place to live! GOD FORBID!

As someone who lives in Puget Sound, I would point out that you and I pay for the San Francisco Economic Bubble.

If you pay these guys $120,000 per year to do what is basically relatively unskilled labor, you and I pick up the cost at the Safeway checkout line.

If the rest of the country refuses to play the California Bay Area Economic Bubble Game, the San Francisco Real Estate Bubble will collapse as over-priced San Francisco real estate remains unsold.

It is not the responsibility of the rest of America to make it possible for San Franciscans to charge each other half a million dollars for a house and fifteen dollars for a cup of coffee with steamed milk in it.

If dockworkers can't afford to buy a $400,000 San Farncisco house, they are free to leave San Francisco, find a more affordable place to work and let San Francisco die as a port.

Puget Sound has lot's of very affordable housing within a reasonable communte of the Port of Seattle. Of course, these guys want $120,000 per year to unload ships here too.