• SovietyWoomy [any]@hexbear.net
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    17 days ago

    If minimum wage kept up with productivity, cost of living, and corporate greed it would be over $100 per hour, over $200,000 per year for a 40 hour per week job. Gen Z needs to raise their expectations.

    • ThermonuclearEgg [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      16 days ago

      Incidentally, this is considered average (median, not mean which falsely weights higher earners) income in the US according to the figures at https://lisep.org/ (annualized has been selected in these images):

      I’m wondering whether the figures for degrees also have some representation of skew towards higher earners who tend to have them.

      • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        16 days ago

        I don’t think the higher degree figures paint a very representative picture. Many non-stem (and some stem) PhDs pay really badly if you’re not employed by evil corps. But that can be the case for many professions, too so idk.

        • yeah, I’m on that advanced degree train, but haven’t arrived at the money station. I would say I am probably above average income for my age in similar Cost of Living Areas, but below average for my education in the same. I’m also a tightwad and a scrapper, so I feel like I ball now because I’ve been in far shittier circumstances.

          i have experienced my MSc work to let me out-compete BSc havers for desirable jobs in the public sector and I expect it will probably help me promote up over time so long as I handle my actual shit in the mean time. so, no regrets.

          ever since I got it, I have been trying to get an honorific associated for the MS/MA, the way PhDs get “doctor”. I was thinking “Maestro”, but so far it hasn’t caught on.

          • I’m looking to get a PhD because I don’t think my mix of trauma and neuro divergence makes it possible to do meaningful work in many other industries/positions. I have learned to live with little, and I don’t really mind not having a super high salary, as long as I have s relatively healthy lifestyle.

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    16 days ago

    Bro, we don’t even expect to have jobs at all.

    Besides. When are we going to talk about how business owners expect gen Z grads to all be Ivy League Valedictorians with years of experience…and still want to flip burgers for their picky ass for minimum wage?

    I don’t want to hear shit about dunking on gen Z when we’re also so apparently awesome that you can graduate with a degree and STILL be “unqualified” for internships.

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      16 days ago

      This is almost carbon copy of the experience Millennials went through coming out of college, largely because it’s the exact same out-of-touch Boomers who are still perched on the upper rungs of ladders punching down.

      Boomers have completely fucked 3 successive generations of Americans, and they absolutely deserve all the vitriol that comes their way.

  • Blep [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    16 days ago

    Even in tech ppl are starting to offer like $60k, for the ppl who can even find anything. Like Amazon is not offering 6 figures from the gate anymore

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    16 days ago

    any analysis of income in the US is kinda butt cheeks without geography / cost of living (aka social reproduction) brought in.

    when 33-50% of what most people deposit goes right back out just so they can have somewhere behind a locked door to set their shit down at night and wash their ass… there’s enough variability in what they actually make after baseline shelter, food, healthcare, required transport, and debt servicing for the amount on the paycheck to be obscured what’s going on.