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...for someone in their mid-20's with only a high school diploma? The job itself is an office job working in the call center of a medical group.
Depends. Is it full time or part time? Are you self-supporting? Can you live on that amount? Call center jobs are high stress. Every call is timed, and you have a quota of calls that you are required to handle every hour. Basically, everything you do, including bathroom breaks is timed. Can you handle that?
IMO, it's lousy pay for the expectations normally required in a call center.
What's important, is do YOU think it's good? I would've been thrilled to make that money at that age. A lot depends on where you live though. Probably wouldn't get you too far in Manhattan.
$17.50 in California is barely getting by, trust me I know lol. It's crazy for me to hear on here that 17.50 is a good paying job. With fluctuation because of overtime, $17.50 will gross you $30-35,000 a year. That's not great. Sometimes I hate California.
$17.50 in California is barely getting by, trust me I know lol. It's crazy for me to hear on here that 17.50 is a good paying job. With fluctuation because of overtime, $17.50 will gross you $30-35,000 a year. That's not great. Sometimes I hate California.
Ya, a friend of mine lives in California. He makes quite a bit of money though but still can't afford a nice house where he lives. For kicks he will post pictures of real estate in his area. Its pretty shocking. Tiny, scary looking homes for 550k. Where I live, that would get you a McMansion. My other friend lives just outside of Boston. Her studio apt is almost as much as mortgage payment. I guess the question is "is 17.50 an hour a good wage where I live."
$17.50 in California is barely getting by, trust me I know lol. It's crazy for me to hear on here that 17.50 is a good paying job. With fluctuation because of overtime, $17.50 will gross you $30-35,000 a year. That's not great. Sometimes I hate California.
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Originally Posted by fallingwater
Ya, a friend of mine lives in California. He makes quite a bit of money though but still can't afford a nice house where he lives. For kicks he will post pictures of real estate in his area. Its pretty shocking. Tiny, scary looking homes for 550k. Where I live, that would get you a McMansion. My other friend lives just outside of Boston. Her studio apt is almost as much as mortgage payment. I guess the question is "is 17.50 an hour a good wage where I live."
California is a big place where the COL varies greatly from one region to another. $17.50 wouldn't get you far in San Francisco, but it would in Mendota.
As has been pointed out, it depends, but making $17.50perhour and working 40hrs a week for a year will produce a yearly income of $36,400.
The median yearly income of all American workers is $26,326. So that income gives you a higher income than the majority of all working Americans by a significant amount.
So on that basis you can say $17.50 is a good income.
As has been pointed out, it depends, but making $17.50perhour and working 40hrs a week for a year will produce a yearly income of $36,400.
The median yearly income of all American workers is $26,326. So that income gives you a higher income than the majority of all working Americans by a significant amount.
So on that basis you can say $17.50 is a good income.
It comes down to gross and net though. I make a little over 17.50, and I have never seen close to 36,000. Maybe net I see 27,000 to 31,000 depending how OT was that year.
This kind of money is good if your single, hard to raise a family comfortably on it though, and I don't even live in an expensive part of California.
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Ya, a friend of mine lives in California. He makes quite a bit of money though but still can't afford a nice house where he lives. For kicks he will post pictures of real estate in his area. Its pretty shocking. Tiny, scary looking homes for 550k. Where I live, that would get you a McMansion. My other friend lives just outside of Boston. Her studio apt is almost as much as mortgage payment. I guess the question is "is 17.50 an hour a good wage where I live."
