Inflation?.

[Sawin]

I've learned long ago that 200k salary job that had 14hour per day is not $97/hr but ~$55/hr.

yes, that is also a very good point! Don't take that job. I had one that was up to 72hrs/week for salary and when quit less than 2 years into it when 56hrs/week was "normal" for the company.

[Great-Kazoo]

It doesn't have to be hard, or even precise I learned some time ago to just double the hourly rate and add 3 zeroes and you have the annual salary equivalent....
ie. $15/hr = $30K salary, $30/hr = $60K, $50/hr = $100K, etc. obviously there's a little margin of error in that, but it's a fair ballpark for the context.

Close enough for government work

[DDT951]

Close enough for government work

Well.... unless said government is trying to get tax money out of you...

$3.19 accounting error = $0.89 in back taxes due + $20,234 in interest and $42,956 in penalties.

[theGinsue]

Coworkers watching Fox News today said they heard it said that inflation will be in the double digits by the end of the year. UGH!

[TEAMRICO]

Coworkers watching Fox News today said they heard it said that inflation will be in the double digits by the end of the year. UGH!

But it will be “Unexpectedly”.
They know exactly how much and when.

[MrPrena]

No shame in taking <15/hr job.

[Irving]

Even the level of punctuation in the title of this thread seems to be affected by inflation.

[BushMasterBoy]

They printed more money than it cost for World War 1 & 2. COVID relief quantitative easing from the Federal Reserve.

The White House press secretary should not have hung up the phone on me. We could have had a vaccine a year early.

Why do the Army helicopters buzz my house and only turn on the transponder after they pass?

[Jamnanc]

yes, that is also a very good point! Don't take that job. I had one that was up to 72hrs/week for salary and when quit less than 2 years into it when 56hrs/week was "normal" for the company.

Puss.

[MrPrena]

Amen, brother.

yes, that is also a very good point! Don't take that job. I had one that was up to 72hrs/week for salary and when quit less than 2 years into it when 56hrs/week was "normal" for the company.

Puss.

I quit my corp job +/- decade ago. To me, time is more valuable than $$$$. After internet era, making money isn't like 90s anymore. I do not have to work for someone or some corp to make $ now.
My former boss around year 2001 was working about that much. She integrated her personal life with the business so much that our team even ate dinner out with her family at a restaurant. For her, it was like killing 2 birds with 1 stone. lol

I think 50-55hr/week is pretty much standard in many corporations even for recent school grads.


Now, going back to wage inflations. I know my boss's job was kept with inflations in 20 years. Fast food and low wage worker's wage just got kept up from 20yrs ago.

Interesting read.
https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/p...-computers.htm