Re:'Employers hold the cards now' as power shifts in US jobs...
by gamblor956 on Thursday February 08, 2024 @05:30PM
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It's quite likely that you'll need 124k for everything else.
$124k is $12.4k/month in non-rent/mortgage costs.
The costs you describe come nowhere close to $124k. You've described maybe $10-14k in other costs, a large portion of which are discretionary luxuries. $100/week in eating out for lunch? That's a luxury. The alternative is to do what most people do: bring a lunch from home. Sandwiches and pasta are cheap: $100 of pasta will feed a person for months.
Somehow, non-techies manage to make things work on way less than $168k/year.
$124k is $12.4k/month in non-rent/mortgage costs.
The costs you describe come nowhere close to $124k. You've described maybe $10-14k in other costs, a large portion of which are discretionary luxuries. $100/week in eating out for lunch? That's a luxury. The alternative is to do what most people do: bring a lunch from home. Sandwiches and pasta are cheap: $100 of pasta will feed a person for months.
Somehow, non-techies manage to make things work on way less than $168k/year.