High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads Line Up for University

Re:High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads... by chongli on Thursday April 26, 2018 @03:24PM (#16934792)

But where are those high paying trade jobs located? For high paying construction trades, it's going to be in the big cities where the high rises are being built. $55,000 may be way above the median for the country but it's barely getting by in places like SF, NYC, LA, Seattle, etc.

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Re:High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads... by Avshalom on Thursday April 26, 2018 @03:27PM (#16934826)

You know that in all those cities there are people living on minimum wage right?

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Re:High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads... by chongli on Thursday April 26, 2018 @03:43PM (#16934965)

Those people living on minimum wage in big cities tend to have a lifestyle we don't even want to talk about. They tend to be immigrants who cram themselves with a large group into tiny apartments where everybody sleeps in the same room.

If you don't want to do that you're going to end up paying way more, hence barely getting by with $55k.

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Re:High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads... by bildung on Friday April 27, 2018 @07:39AM (#16939967)

Median household income for NYC is $50k https://project.wnyc.org/median-income-nabes/

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