It's Seattle, so yeah 2500 take-home per month after taxes is just barely covering rent. Maybe not even covering rent if you need anything more than a shitty studio
$19/hour won't let you buy a house and it won't let you send your child to college without crushing debt. It would be difficult to even just raise a child on $19/hr. It's shameful that this is even a headline of an ostentatious amount of money for a worker to be making -- pretty sure they would still be in poverty especially after taxes.
If I remember right adjusted for inflation from the highest point it should be around $20, if adjusted for productivity like it actually should be it would be around $27-28.
this is true, but 38000 is much better than much of unskilled work receives in this country; and, w/ the addition of the tuition reimbursement, it's a great job for kids at the U.
$20 is still scraps, iirc we should be near what like $30 an hour or something to match inflation? I hope workers keep holding out.
It's Seattle, so yeah 2500 take-home per month after taxes is just barely covering rent. Maybe not even covering rent if you need anything more than a shitty studio
$19/hour won't let you buy a house and it won't let you send your child to college without crushing debt. It would be difficult to even just raise a child on $19/hr. It's shameful that this is even a headline of an ostentatious amount of money for a worker to be making -- pretty sure they would still be in poverty especially after taxes.
What should minimum wage even be right now, I have no clue. I know that 19/20 is still laughably low.
If I remember right adjusted for inflation from the highest point it should be around $20, if adjusted for productivity like it actually should be it would be around $27-28.
this is true, but 38000 is much better than much of unskilled work receives in this country; and, w/ the addition of the tuition reimbursement, it's a great job for kids at the U.