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<blockquote data-quote="John19841" data-source="post: 615148" data-attributes="member: 10939"><p>Just wanted to break this down a little bit. Do a little basic budgeting, ya know?</p><p></p><p>$700 a week is roughly $2800 a month. That's take home. Now you said rentals go from $1100/month. I don't know if that includes any utilities or not, but for the sake of argument, We're going to say they do not, if they did the rental prices wouldn't correspond with the home prices.</p><p></p><p>$2800 - $1100 = $1700 month left. Let's take a [-]decent[/-] cheap $200 car payment out of that and $75 for insurance. That leaves us with $1425. Now we're going to take out $100/week for groceries. That's $400 a month. That leaves us with $1,025. </p><p></p><p>Let's take out ONLY $300/month for utilities. That's $725 left. Take out $100 for gas for the month and we're at $625. $100 for such "luxuries" as Cable/TV/Internet package (You know, for Browncafe.) That's $525. </p><p></p><p>I'm going to stop there. That's roughly $130/week left over. Keep in mind <strong>most </strong>people have little bills to go with this such as credit cards, cell phones, etc. etc. I did this with cheap, basic bills based upon ONE person, Living alone. I realize you can get by on this. Just barely, but can you get by. Now, the real point here, which is what I was trying to make originally, is <strong>would you really want to work your a** off day in and day out to live like this? Just getting by with no money to put towards anything, nevermind retirement, kids, a family, a house...anything. </strong></p><p></p><p>Let's face it. UPS pays a living wage. The only reason it seems high is because EVERYTHING (Inflation) has gone up, while wages (labor) has remained stagnant. House prices/rents have increased tenfold since the 80's. I'm still waiting for the average wage to double. There is definatley something wrong in the way in which the people who actually work in this country are paid. DO NOT TAKE IT OUT ON UPS BECAUSE THEIR PAY SCALE HAS INFLATED ALONG WITH EVERYTHING ELSE.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John19841, post: 615148, member: 10939"] Just wanted to break this down a little bit. Do a little basic budgeting, ya know? $700 a week is roughly $2800 a month. That's take home. Now you said rentals go from $1100/month. I don't know if that includes any utilities or not, but for the sake of argument, We're going to say they do not, if they did the rental prices wouldn't correspond with the home prices. $2800 - $1100 = $1700 month left. Let's take a [-]decent[/-] cheap $200 car payment out of that and $75 for insurance. That leaves us with $1425. Now we're going to take out $100/week for groceries. That's $400 a month. That leaves us with $1,025. Let's take out ONLY $300/month for utilities. That's $725 left. Take out $100 for gas for the month and we're at $625. $100 for such "luxuries" as Cable/TV/Internet package (You know, for Browncafe.) That's $525. I'm going to stop there. That's roughly $130/week left over. Keep in mind [B]most [/B]people have little bills to go with this such as credit cards, cell phones, etc. etc. I did this with cheap, basic bills based upon ONE person, Living alone. I realize you can get by on this. Just barely, but can you get by. Now, the real point here, which is what I was trying to make originally, is [B]would you really want to work your a** off day in and day out to live like this? Just getting by with no money to put towards anything, nevermind retirement, kids, a family, a house...anything. [/B] Let's face it. UPS pays a living wage. The only reason it seems high is because EVERYTHING (Inflation) has gone up, while wages (labor) has remained stagnant. House prices/rents have increased tenfold since the 80's. I'm still waiting for the average wage to double. There is definatley something wrong in the way in which the people who actually work in this country are paid. DO NOT TAKE IT OUT ON UPS BECAUSE THEIR PAY SCALE HAS INFLATED ALONG WITH EVERYTHING ELSE. [/QUOTE]
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