Why 3.5M Americans in their prime years aren’t working

Re:Why 3.5M Americans in their prime years aren’t working by eli_gottlieb on Saturday February 24, 2018 @04:30PM (#16455528)

I always hear people claiming tech is full of over-inflated salaries, then look at jobs in my area and see that people want a web-dev with 3-5 years of experience in specific frameworks and offer to pay about $82k/year.

Yeah ok guys, that's pretty inflated, innit /s?

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Re:Why 3.5M Americans in their prime years aren’t working by walshemj on Saturday February 24, 2018 @04:49PM (#16455618)

I have in the UK seen a job add in an agency for an experienced php developer at £27k next to it was for a senior "ground worker" for > £35k.

A ground worker is the PC term what's known in civil engineering as a "navvy"

Oh and the ground worker would get OT

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Re:Why 3.5M Americans in their prime years aren’t working by sjg007 on Saturday February 24, 2018 @07:28PM (#16456386)

You're going to have to translate what a navvy or ground worker is for us yanks.

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Re:Why 3.5M Americans in their prime years aren’t working by walshemj on Saturday February 24, 2018 @08:03PM (#16456498)

It's guy who digs a hole in the ground for civil engineering projects.

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Re:Why 3.5M Americans in their prime years aren’t working by mcguire on Saturday February 24, 2018 @06:07PM (#16456017)

The median personal income in the US is $31-35k. The median household income was $59k last year.

What exactly are the requirements for a "web developer" with 3-5 years experience? More or less than a registered nurse with 3-5 years experience (~$60k)?

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Re:Why 3.5M Americans in their prime years aren’t working by maxsilver on Saturday February 24, 2018 @06:26PM (#16456111)

Except nursing is experiencing a major shortage too - https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/02/nursing-s... So if anything, the low wages for nurses just just further supports the parent comment -- wages are too low.

If you want to fill a shortage, you need to start by raising wages substantially. If for no other reason than to at least allow new students some hope of ever repaying the always-increasing college costs required to enter these fields.

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Re:Why 3.5M Americans in their prime years aren’t working by eli_gottlieb on Saturday February 24, 2018 @10:00PM (#16456882)

Look, I'm not evaluating their virtue as human beings or their contributions to society. I'm saying that in a functioning market economy, prices/wages reflect an informed estimate of the balance between supply and demand. If you're telling people stories of a shortage and sky-high prices, then offering to buy for well below "sky-high", well, you're lying to someone, and let's just hope it's yourself.

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Re:Why 3.5M Americans in their prime years aren’t working by sjg007 on Saturday February 24, 2018 @07:27PM (#16456378)

RNs make 100k easy in any mid city market.

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