Submitted by A_Man_Who_Writes t3_10hr9k0 in massachusetts
xXGreco t1_j5ay7lt wrote
Reply to comment by twoscoop in Why did Sunday pay go away? by A_Man_Who_Writes
Its MINIMUM wage for a reason. If you work for minimum wage you should expect to be able to afford the minimum required essentials to live.
SaveCachalot346 t1_j5bn6oo wrote
> . If you work for minimum wage you should expect to be able to afford the minimum required essentials to live.
Agreed. You can no longer do that on $15 and hour in the state of Massachusetts
Silegna t1_j5bki85 wrote
When it was created it was called "A living wage" the minimum REQUIRED TO LIVE. $15 does not meet that criteria. At all.
CrispyWalrus t1_j5bns0j wrote
$15 an hour is only $30k a year at regular 40-hour a week job. That said most of us on SS get even less. It's not a lot, but you can certainly live on that amount.
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CrispyWalrus t1_j5d74nm wrote
I think you lost me at the first sentence. You wrote, "It's 21k working only 40hrs." As this was in response to my minimum wage $15 an hour comment, then I'm guessing you are responding, saying you only make 21k at that? I am not a tax professional and not familiar enough to even hazard a guess at what your rate might be earning $15 an hour for 2,000 hours in a year, but keeping only 21k out of a 30k earnings is a 30% rate which seems really high to me earning so little.
twoscoop t1_j5ayyxf wrote
Def can be doing that on 15 bucks an hour.
after taxes comes to about 13.5 an hour.
40x13.5 540x4 2160 a week
1800 for a studio apartment 200 for utilities and you have 160 bucks left over for car insurance, car, gas, food. So you gotta work more hours than the 40.
60 gets you an extra 270 a week. 1080 a month. Which working 60 hours a week, that will get you enough to eat and sleep in warm building. Now thats just more than a 1/3 of your life working for shit pay. Id rather sell drugs.
akuma360 t1_j5bmemp wrote
Do you mean 2160 a month? Because I make well over $15 an hour and don’t take home anywhere close to 2K a week lmao
twoscoop t1_j5bmtyu wrote
Yeah, a month, jeez i'm just off today.. dang. .
Markymarcouscous t1_j5b3hbc wrote
Or you could do what all students do and have roommates. Bings rent down by 400-800 a month pretty quick. It is minimum wage, minimum standard of living. If you want more go get certification or education to qualify you for a job that pays more.
twoscoop t1_j5bdsiy wrote
Okay, 2400 2 bed, 1200 instead of 1800. If you wanna get more wild , we can do 5 people 2 bed...
Find me a place that is 400 bucks without people that will end up in a dumpster, because they can't be adults?
CrispyWalrus t1_j5bn7te wrote
Where are you looking? $2400 for a 2-bed is not the average here. You are about $500 too high in your estimate maybe a bit less but I still regularly see 2-beds for less than $2000.
twoscoop t1_j5bp51a wrote
where
CrispyWalrus t1_j5czq63 wrote
Could be your problem. I don't really look as I'm not in need but I share what I see. To humor this request I just hit up Craigslist housing and checked my local area. I'm in Attleboro. I was quite correct. I see options in Bristol County and along the South Coast as well as in Rhode Island, plenty of Pawtucket and Providence. I knew a friend who was a property owner out in Warre, which tends to run even cheaper. Where have you looked?
twoscoop t1_j5d3x10 wrote
You can get a house with 4 bed rooms 2 bath for like 700 in ware. This is true.
I learned something young, don't go near the water of the cove.
BK_to_LA t1_j5cko08 wrote
I wanted to believe you but just looked through Zillow and only saw a handful of $1900 2 beds in Medford, Everett, and Quincy. There’s more options once you go above $2k but the world of paying $2k on avg for a 2 bed is long gone.
Edit to say I’m speaking for the Greater Boston area
CrispyWalrus t1_j5d940h wrote
I'm surprised you found any under $2,000. Those locales are all well within the 128 Loop. Prices are going to be a lot higher.
Markymarcouscous t1_j5bhf2g wrote
Rent down by 400, 1800-1200 = 400.
twoscoop t1_j5bivn2 wrote
ah, i can read very good, much good indeed.
Well, in that case, 400 bucks does go far. That can feed like 3 people for a month.
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