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How the hell does a single person live on minimum wage?
I can't even imagine a single mom living on minimum wage, how the hell does someone even live on $7/hr? :2 cents:
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How? By stayin' single..
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$6.55 is current minimum wage I believe.
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Roommates, they don't live with other luxuries, etc. 40 hours a week at seven dollars an hour is probably around $1000-1100 a month after taxes, you can live on that in my area. My brother lives on less.
Not everybody has a car or a fancy TV. It's very tough, but that's why it is the minimum. |
7*40*4 = 1120
It's more like $900 a month if that after taxes. |
I don't know, Justin.
How do you live on minimum wage? |
You do by having a second minimum wage job...
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Any single mom working and making minimum wage is also probably collecting $700 or so a month in welfare and food stamps.
So to answer your question on how they live. We (the taxpayers) are helping out a little bit. |
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Min wage has kept them poor. Get rid of min wage and companies would start to compete for low waged workers. But as of right now its price fixed so no need to compete for workers so no need to pay them anything.
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My guess is that a very large percentage of webmasters here make even less that minimum wage if you go by the actual hours...:1orglaugh:1orglaugh
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right calculation is
7x 40 x 13 / 3 gives you the monthly wager wage x hours a week x 13 weeks / 3 months |
Because a lot of places it's not expensive to live?
In my area, price of living is so cheap I can technically, if I don't drive a car, or have a cellphone or eat out, any of that extra stuff, just pay my bills, I can live off $600/mo. |
It's very doable, obviously won't be able to afford any luxuries, but it's not THAT hard...
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live with family
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Kraft dinner
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Once you figure it out, you'll figure out how to live very well on anything you make above that.
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I only mind the people who are starving to death...
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GFY is filled with negative energy. :(
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The minimum wage here is $8.55
Cant imagine earning less than $25/hr |
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min wage here is like $9 now, its moving to $10 shortly
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Let's do math $7.25 X 40 = $290 per week $290 X 52 weeks = $15,080 a year Now no matter what you are geting FICA taxes taken out and you don't get those back. FICA taxes are 7.65% $15,080 X.9235 = $13,926 after FICA atxes are taken out. Being single gets you a standard deduction of $5450 and $3500 for your personal exemption. So $5450 + $3500 = $8950. $8950 is what you'd get to deduct off your income of $15,080. So $15,080 - $8950 = $6130 $6130 is what you'd have to pay taxes on. Since that would be in the 10% backet that would be $613. So $13,926( amount left after FICA ) -$613 for income tax = $13,313. I'm not even counting state income taxes. $13,313/52 weeks = $256 a week to live off of. Good luck living off of $256 a week. Of course you could a get a 2nd job( inthis economy yeah right ) but remember the first $2000 off that extra income is taxed at a total of 17.65%( FICA and income tax ) everything after that is taxed at 22.65% since you'd be in the 15% tax bracket. So even a 2nd 40 hour job at $7.25 an hour would end up bringing in $11,766 after taxes. So one could bust their ass working 80 hours a week and only bring home $25k a year after taxes. Which is about $6 an hour after taxes. |
you need roommate(s) so that your rent share would only be around $200, and you can easily eat very well for a couple hundred a month if you cook for yourself and shop properly
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I know someone who makes about $300 per week before taxes and gets
$1100 from the state for child care, $350 for WIC (diapers and shit), $450 for food and I think about $600 - $800 for her housing allowance. She has two kids so she also gets a state paid insurance card for her and the kids which covers their health care. She's about 23 years old and is looking to buy a house for $210,000 at 1% interest and 50% paid by a federal program for community development. Poor people in the US are rich compared to most nations ! |
Recent immigrants do it all the time. Worked 100 years ago, worked during my parents' time, and I'm sure it works now. Here's how my own parents were able to do it when they started out:
1) Live together with other relatives. 2) Share all costs 3) Save 25% to 40% of all income 4) Share transportation/plan out routes 5) Buy food collectively and spread out costs 6) Cook food collectively and pack meals for work 7) Participate in "paluwagan" systems (other cultures use differing terms for this) that involve revolving credit 8) buy assets slowly with savings, reinvest asset income |
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Good question,
I have no idea.. but have always wondered. Hell, even if they are bringing home $10 an hour after taxes.. it's still a tight fit. |
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It isn't very easy. You have to basically have no debt, live in a cheap place and not have to commute to far to work. You won't have any extras that is for sure.
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fat loser socially inept virgin webmasters discussing social problems. the world would be a utopia with gfy in charge.
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I have a friend of mine who is 100% disabled, and from various sources including some money from the VA, he brings in around $2200. Considering his rent is $900 a month and his car payment is $400 a month, that doesn't leave him much left over. But he gets by.
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Yeah that's truly eeking out a living.
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Has anyone here seen the show 30 days? It is done by the guy that did the documentary Super Size Me. Basically they take a person and put them in a situation opposite of what they know for 30 days. For example they sent a guy who is anti-gay and homophobic and a Christian Conservative to live with a gay guy in the Castro for 30 days. It is pretty interesting.
Anyway, the first episode of the show the guy that created it Morgan Spurlock and his girlfriend try to live on minimum wage for 30 days. They get jobs, get a crappy apartment and try to scrape buy. Both of them ended up getting hurt during that time and had to go to the ER and both times it was around $1200 each. They had just started the jobs so they didn't have health insurance yet (90 day probation period). When it was over they were both shocked that anyone could live on that wage these days. Many will argue that minimum wage jobs are meant for kids in school and older people looking for a part time job, but with the current economy I bet there are a lot of people out there who would jump at a minimum wage job. |
If only we weren't expected to be 9 billion...
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The dollar menu is your friend.
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I spent the first couple working years of my life on minimum wage, lived with a bunch of people and ate KD daily. It certainly makes the spoils of business more enjoyable when you start at minimum wage! |
There are parts of the country where you can live dirt cheap. Apartments for a couple hundred bucks and so on. Maybe cheaper if you get a few roommates and split the bills. If you know how to budget money right, you can eat for fairly cheap. I was dirt poor going through college and could find ways to eat well on $10/week. I also believe the person would qualify for Earned Income Credit. It's kind of like welfare for people who work.
I was able to get by making $13,000 a year my last two years of college (mind you that probably went a little bit farther 7 years ago). I had to take out loans for tuition but was able to pay my bills and eat for the most part. Shit would get real tight sometimes if my car broke down or something, but it's do-able. The problem is that people who make minimum wage want to live like they make much more. They want the nice cell phone, nice clothes, and cable TV. Cut out all the luxuries you have and it can be done. |
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