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0 pointsMattGaiser5y ago0 comments

The poverty line for a family of 4 is $26,500 USD. [0] Median full time income in the USA is $35,977. [1]

90,000 is well away from poverty.

[0] https://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty-guidelines

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_....

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jcun41285y ago· 2 in thread

4 people? That's nuts I was making that washing plates as a single person no dependents. I think maybe less actually after taxes.

MattGaiserOP5y ago

You were probably making that in California though, not WV or SC. Houses are less than a year of developer pay there.

jcun41285y ago

I was in KS and I was just paid "highly" eg. $12+/hr although I was multi-role

edit: maybe less was making $11-12/hr and not full time, my math was off. I was freelancing on the side though before I got into the industry but yeah $20K range was my figure at that time eg. just over 3 years ago(it did suck, I was mad broke still am but working on it).

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