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Silegna t1_j5bki85 wrote

Reply to comment by xXGreco in Why did Sunday pay go away? by A_Man_Who_Writes

When it was created it was called "A living wage" the minimum REQUIRED TO LIVE. $15 does not meet that criteria. At all.

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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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[deleted] t1_j5caja1 wrote

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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.

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