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What's with telling YEARLY salaries? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 year ago by Blizzard@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I think this is mostly a US thing. Why use yearly salary? You're not paid once a year, are you? Most likely once a month. Referencing monthly salary makes much more sense.

"I'm making 50k". Great, now I have to guess - dollars? Monthly? Yearly? If yearly then what's the monthly paycheck? Net? Gross?

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[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think it's probably one of those things that is stupid until you reach a point of financial success or fall into groups that consider your financial wealth important. Why it's a thing is probably because we pay our taxes once a year and that's when it's laid bare and you see how much you made. So after 10 or 20 years you kinda know what 50k a year is and if someone is talking about making that much you can understand the lack of money they have. If you friend tells you that, don't ask them out to expensive things unless you're going to pay the bill.

[–] Tuss@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is 50k per year below average in the US? Is it hard to survive on that amount?

[–] Atropos@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

It depends significantly on location and living situation, but 50k ranges from moderately comfortable all the way to poverty line.

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To add to the other poster, in the USA we have calculators for these things.

There is lots of info available, but a short answer is:

The real median earnings of all workers aged 15 and over with earnings decreased 1.2 percent between 2019 and 2020 from $42,065 to $41,535

[–] Tuss@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Comparing that to where I live.

The median is about $37k per year.

On the other hand. I make around $13k, single household, studio flat close to the city center and I make do just ok. Wouldn't hurt to earn a bit more. But on the other hand I work a bit less than 50%. It's hard to find work though and inflation is making living harder.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

If you have a family it's poverty wage.