Fuck is you talkin bout? Let’s say you have a couple making $100K each, with two kids. Good salaries, maybe even a bit “mad”. You think they can afford childcare and a $1M home?
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omgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Salaries in the US are a bit mad though, so it’s mostly inflation surely?
eran_morad@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Carvex@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I work for a small private employer in rural America, in a field where there are no other places to work at without moving. I haven’t had a raise above inflation rate since covid, technically I’m making less money than years ago. Everyone here is fighting each other to take more of that 1% of the wealth we all have to share. Our government is complicit and backroom-contracted into keeping money in the wealthiest hands. A politicians vote isn’t even that expensive.
Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
For real, I remember reading that all it takes for Ted Cruz is like $10,000.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Have you had raises at inflation rate?
eran_morad@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Only way to achieve that is to leave for a higher paying job, or threaten to do so, credibly. Worked for me.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
That works if you have negotiating power (i.e. marketable, in demand skills). It’s not an option for many people. For instance, I live in Arkansas where Tyson Foods is a major employer. They have poultry plants in small towns all over the place. Higher paying jobs don’t exist in a lot of those places.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 1 month ago
I offered to quit for 6 months to get out from a non compete since I am technically a contractor and that got me a new contract and a small raise… That was neat.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I seem to have stumbled upon an employer that actually values its employees, seeing how I keep getting raises that match inflation.
Granted, I left a different job for that initial 40% raise …
We’ll see how it pans out.
radivojevic@discuss.online 1 month ago
Mad? You mean not relative to inflation because they are LOW?
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No. Wages have remained stagnant and actually have gone down. The median salary is $74k, and remember that half of people in the US make less than that. 62% of Americans can’t afford to buy the cheapest house in the cheapest state for housing.
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 1 month ago
To clarify, $74k is the median household income and not salary. Median salary in the US is $37k. Median salary in California, where half of the cities mentioned in the article are, is just shy of $40k.
NateNate60@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If you live in the cheapest state, your salary is probably correspondingly low
omgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
It doesn’t take much to find plenty of people on Reddit talking about how they make 130k a year as a Walmart truck driver. Or the hordes or software engineers with 300k salaries, grads starting straight out of uni with well over 100k.
There is definitely inflation, the corresponding salary increases just don’t seem to be across all industries.
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
So anecdotal stories are more important to you than statistics from the US census bureau? For the record, the department does more than send out a survey every 10 years; the survey is like a recalibration for their statistics.
There are 3 primary factors contributing to the housing crisis:
These 3 issues aren’t the end of the story either, the opiate crisis, climate change, exclusionary politics, and many other factors are contributing to the housing crisis. The primary issue is that workers aren’t being paid enough.
thurstylark@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Not to mention across demographics. Plenty of people don’t use Reddit for reasons of taste, time, or simply access.
Plus, there’s definitely a bias towards bragging about ones high salary (whether real or imagined). Not a lot of us who are struggling like to broadcast exactly how much we’re struggling. It fucking sucks, and the majority of our lives are spent dealing with that fact.
You’re operating on anecdotal evidence in a heavily biased context. This is why you’re getting the downvotes you deserve. Get yiur head out of your ass.