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Originally Posted by Ina Van Down By The River
Can't believe some of these anounts!
Somebody here is streching the truth a little....$40.00 an hour?
Yeah, right. 30.00 an hour? NO way.
Why would you think that isn't possible. Thirty bucks an hour is chump change. I'm one of the chumps stuck with it.
I have one of my weekly checks sitting in front of me. It's a straight 40 hour check. Pay rate is $30.42 an hour. Gross is $1,216.80 per week.
These are my weekly deductions.
Federal tax----$74.76
FICA-OASDI---$70.55
FICA-HI---$16.50
Ohio state tax---$38.55
Pennsylvania unemployment tax--$0.73
Pennsylvania OPT---$1.00
Vision care---$2.53
accidental death/ dismemberment---$0.88
Medical family coverage---$72.92
Dental----$2.63
Union dues---$31.25 (bi-weekly)
Bring home pay---$905.50 during weeks with union dues taken out
I'm due a $1.50 an hour raise in January, but medical will go up more than what the raise covers. Sometimes we get some overtime, and performance bonuses, but I don't count on them.
Luckily, I live in one of the cheapest areas in the entire Country. My check goes pretty far around here. Now comes the kick in the teeth. This is pretty much the same hourly wage I was making in 1995 in the same position with the same airline. The only difference is back then we had free medical & dental, and there were enough empty seats that we could actually take advantage of the free flying.
I forgot to say that I am a Federally licensed aircraft mechanic.
It is those high wages that is responsible for the need for companies to cut costs by shipping jobs to China, Mexico, India, etc.
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What high wages are you talking about. Give us some examples. Are you stating paying a cashier $9 too much. How about a Mechanic wages being in the range of $25 to $30. Maybe you mean paying a Plumber $38 is to much. Enlighten us on how much American worker should make.
I can make about $50-60 per hour on my part time gig, but much less than that for my regular job. I think I am within a dollar or two per hour of maxing out on my regular job hourly wage. We live in a very very low cost-of-living area. You can get a 2 bedroom apartment in a nice part of town for less than $400 a month. You could probably find a 1200-1500 sf 3 bedroom house in a good part of town for maybe 70K.
When we got our mortgage in 2005, the mortgage lady was thrilled at my husband's teacher salary. She said usually you get a two-earner couple making $8 or $9 per hour each, so a teaching salary is considered very good money around here. Weird, huh?
$29.92 as a Legal Secretary. I better keep this job because the pay in Charlotte, NC is seriously lacking.
I didn't factor into benefits:
10% toward 401K - company match of 4% (yes, pretty darn low compared to my last job in banking where they matched 100%)
Medical 18.41 every 2 weeks x 12 months = $441.84
Dental 23.54 every 2 weeks x 12 months = 564.96
Company contributes $114 toward parking monthly
Many days, I don't pay for breakfast nor lunch due to client events.
TGIF Fridays each week, free food, beer and wine after 4 p.m.
Wow! I'm still not satisfied. Call me greedy.
Last edited by Brooklyn_QueenBee; 10-21-2009 at 07:50 AM..
Reason: Did not add benefits.
$29.92 as a Legal Secretary. I better keep this job because the pay in Charlotte, NC is seriously lacking.
I didn't factor into benefits:
10% toward 401K - company match of 4% (yes, pretty darn low compared to my last job in banking where they matched 100%)
Medical 18.41 every 2 weeks x 12 months = $441.84
Dental 23.54 every 2 weeks x 12 months = 564.96
Company contributes $114 toward parking monthly
Many days, I don't pay for breakfast nor lunch due to client events.
TGIF Fridays each week, free food, beer and wine after 4 p.m.
Wow! I'm still not satisfied. Call me greedy.
I'd just die for your salary right now. Especially being single and just out of college, haha!
I'm paid $10/hr in South Carolina as a temp administrative specialist. However, this job is great because it opens doors. I could be looking at 12.50/hr to maybe even $14/hr when I finished my term of employment in March.
You know, fo those disbelieving of folks making over $40 an hour, consider this. I started my first full-time "career job" six months after college graduation (a BA in English) in 1984. That was let's see...25 years ago.
Larger salaries might make more sense if viewed in terms of salary history over decades. All of the jobs below were in the same field--writing/editing/corporate communications. I do not have an advanced degree, just the modest little liberal arts BA I started with:
My first job paid $14K per year. (1984, very bad job market for grads)
Next job paid $14.5K (1986)
Next job paid $16K (1987)
Next job was a temp editorial job paying $9/hr, or about $18K (1990)
Next permanent job paid $25K (1991)
Next job was a big jump to $31K (1992)
I stayed there for 6 years and after a series of promotions and merit raises made it up to $60K (1992-1998)
Left there and started my own freelance writing business and yearly earnings were anywhere from $35K-75K (1998-2004)
Back into fulltime employment and back down to $50K (2004)
Laid off and unemployed for 8 months (2007)
Current job: started at $78K, now at 81K after merit raise (2008)
New job will be $81K plus post adjustment (overseas) of 74% (2010)
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