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Re:Birth Rates Dropped Most in U.S. Counties Where Home Pric... by wil421 on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @02:47AM (#17291203)
Yea and the majority of people don’t make anywhere near 400k. You still need a huge low paid workforce to get things running. Firemen, police, teacher, retail and grocery workers, cleaners, bus drivers, plumbers and the like.
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Re:Birth Rates Dropped Most in U.S. Counties Where Home Pric... by mkirklions on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @10:25AM (#17293504)
None of those positions are low paid outside of teenage retail/grocery workers.

Fire/police/teacher/plumbers are very well paid.

Cleaning is hit and miss, specialty cleaning is borderline extortion.

Still, I know that most cleaning people get paid min 15$/hr.

At 15$/hr, 30k/yr is plenty to live.

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Re:Birth Rates Dropped Most in U.S. Counties Where Home Pric... by mistrial9 on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @10:52AM (#17293761)
please show specific details on your claim that teachers are well-paid
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Re:Birth Rates Dropped Most in U.S. Counties Where Home Pric... by mitchdoogle on Thursday June 14, 2018 @02:06PM (#17313852)
fire, police, teacher, and plumbers are all in the $40k - $60k range, at least in the US. I wouldn't call that well paid.
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Re:Birth Rates Dropped Most in U.S. Counties Where Home Pric... by gm-conspiracy on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @08:19AM (#17292543)
I do not consider plumbers low-paid.
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Re:Birth Rates Dropped Most in U.S. Counties Where Home Pric... by wil421 on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @11:56AM (#17294523)
I would agree with you and I actually looked up some numbers. 56k was an average for an experienced plumber on his own. Not to mention they have to invest in tools.
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Re:Birth Rates Dropped Most in U.S. Counties Where Home Pric... by Hydraulix989 on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @10:55AM (#17293797)
I remember an article showing up a while back about a unionized BART janitor raking in nearly 300k.
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Re:Birth Rates Dropped Most in U.S. Counties Where Home Pric... by Obi_Juan_Kenobi on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @01:11PM (#17295392)
That's someone who learned how to game the OT system. A real issue, sure, but not at all indicative of how much BART employees make. It's the same kind of manipulative bullshit that spawned the 'Welfare Queen' myth.
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Re:Birth Rates Dropped Most in U.S. Counties Where Home Pric... by wil421 on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @11:57AM (#17294534)
So your example is one Janitor out of how many in SF?
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