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"Your trash is my money," Molina, 32, says with baby-faced grin.
Molina made $112,000 last year as a garbage truck driver and Sankar made $100,000 as a helper, riding on the back of the truck. Their wages have grown in eight of the last nine years, according to their bosses, brothers David and Jerry Antonacci, owners of Crown Container, a waste management company.
One of my distant relatives did some sort of crab-fishing gig that paid $35,000 total over a few months and lived on the ship, to pay off student loans!!!
What's the purpose of the post? Is this new info that "sanitation" workers can make more than 100K? (whether they work for a large city, or have their own trucks or work for a company).
A lot of people in jobs, careers, and trades can make that kind of money. That's not to say those jobs are easy to get, but they are out there.
"Your trash is my money," Molina, 32, says with baby-faced grin.
Molina made $112,000 last year as a garbage truck driver and Sankar made $100,000 as a helper, riding on the back of the truck. Their wages have grown in eight of the last nine years, according to their bosses, brothers David and Jerry Antonacci, owners of Crown Container, a waste management company.
While impressive there are certain realities that make it a lot less impressive when looked at as a whole picture:
1. Cost of living is very high in NYC thus even if they live in a surrounding area besides NYC their money wont go as far as $100K in a normal COL area.
2. They work 55-60 hours a week. So if you adjust that to a normal 40 hour work week they are making only $70K. Its still very good money but not impressive at all considering its in NYC. Also keep in mind that since OT is limited most that work for the same company make less then 100K. In fact, the average salary of a garbage collector in NYC is $54K (see link below). However, I'm not sure if NYC has different collectors from different companies earning less because the article stated that one of the guys was making 80K his first year. But this could also be attributed to working an insane amount of OT.
3. These guys represent the "1 percenters" of garbage men. So most garbage men don't come anywhere near this salary. For reference the highest paid 10% of garbage men only make $58K across the nation with the median being a lowly $33K:
So my point is I'm very happy that these two guys can make a good living from this profession but they do not represent the majority of sanitation workers in terms of compensation.
Love how the article notes the one school drop-out "migrated" from Guyana. In other words, an illegal. One argument people make for illegals is that they take jobs Americans won't do. I never realized that applied to the $100k jobs, too.
Love how the article notes the one school drop-out "migrated" from Guyana. In other words, an illegal. One argument people make for illegals is that they take jobs Americans won't do. I never realized that applied to the $100k jobs, too.
Why do you assume he's an "illegal"? Because he's a non-white immigrant? This stupid post is a perfect example of exactly why most people equate concern for illegal immigration with racism and xenophobia. Of course, the "anti-illegal" crowd's denial that illegal immigrants from Canada and Ireland is any kind of problem simply underscores their racism. They assume all "illegals" are Latinos when, in fact, many are Canadian and Irish nationals.
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