What do you earn?
 

I wonder what dwellars earn.

What do you make per year, excluding benefits. First half is your income alone, second half is combined, or household income.

anonymous poll.

I don't get the poll...not that it applies to me anyway...but the "with spouse" you said not to include spouse...so is that salary of you and spouse added together, or still just what you make and indicating you also have a spouse who works?????

Geographic location matters a lot here.

I make a bit above the national average, but for the neighborhood where I live, I'm well below average, and things are a little tight for my family. My wife isn't employed.

I'm not sure how useful this poll will be in helping you decide upon a fair salary for your location.

National numbers.

you can vote more than once, so if you were married and made 25k you would vote for 25k and then add your spouse's income to 25k. So in your case, shaw you'd end up with a negative number, so just vote for your own income and don't include the hobo.

Others could vote for themselves, and then again with the spouse added.

Glatt, it is more of a just wondering about money in general and not meant to be a method of evaluating a salary request.

*kicks ground, muttering: story of my freaking life*

:lol:

I should get a raise for having to listen to the woman in the next cube chew on ice all day, or snap gum, or jingle jangle around.

Gawd I hate cubicles. Ask for MORE money if they tell you you will be working in a cubicle. ;)

Hang your dead hobo on the wall facing the gum-snapper, and hang its head into her cubicle. That should fix her. :p:

101 Uses for a Dead Hobo

I'm writing a book! :)

These ranges are insufficient. I'm not saying which, and in which direction. :right:

I like maps and information, so here's a link to an interactive table that shows the median household income by county.

And here's a map with similar information.

And a snippet of the map. 2008 numbers.

I think that's what "mad loot" is for. :rolleyes:

I don't care if it isanonymous, [b]anonymous[/i], it's none of your frakkin' biz!

Yeah. I'm guessing zero. :right:

Nah, with all that credit card debt, it's waay negative.

And student loans!

I make about $360/year. rly :)

Is that including the deposits on the cans or are you trying to hide income from us?:p:

Should I be including what I get for my university scholarship? It's not really 'earnings' but it is incoming cash...

Fuck it. I'll include the scholarship payments.

do you earn what you get paid?

Wrong! If I tell you, how do I know you won't try to hack into my bank account?

I do!

My only real income is as the school swim team coach. This is my second year. The fee is set by the district. My co-coach and I would do it for nothing, but the money is a set rate (aimed at highschooler/college swimmer extra income level) and with employeeship comes insurance etc., so it's better all round if we are officially employed for real money. it's all ends up back at the school anyway, plus we also to the work of team parent, chief recruiter etc. :lol:

She was commenting on how much the majority of us cares about what you think or earn.

:rolleyes:

::attempted flame begins in 5...4...3...2...we have whine ignition....oh noes!!11!! VITRIOL MALFUNCTION! abort humor attempt. Abort! ::

Holy crap , the mean income for the representative sample of dwellers is in the upper bracket of the American tax code. That is a lot of money.

Trust me, some of us are doing our bit to keep that figure from getting too high...

Like me for one, I make next to nothing

I had to add my scholarship funding to my wages to make it out of that first bracket.

Even if I add everything I'm still below the poverty line

You can't average these numbers like that, because people could vote multiple times. I voted for both my income, and my "income with spouse."

I have enough to be 'elegant' - where's the 'elegant' choice up there?

Elegance still rather eludes me I fear :P:

There are MANY ways to be elegant.

There is the Royal Family elegant, there is Grey Gardens elegant, there is Carmella Soprano elegant...hell, there's even a Steven Tyler elegant.

lots of people here making much more money than me! I'd like to see it broken down by gender though . . .

I wouldn't call it a representative sample. I, for example, would never post that information on a web forum.

. . . I wonder how many told the truth anyway - jus sayin'

I did :P

What's the big deal?

I'm not going to make a theory about these numbers; it is a nonscientific poll on a form. However, if they are to be looked at all the mode must be considered here.

Anyway all polls are supposed to do is give you a rough idea of what is going on.

I didn't... I put down what I was earning, when I was earning.:p:

same here

Ha good on you both. I wasn't really all that serious tho.

Well, 30 thou isn't all that much, but I don't want to put myself in the mind frame I make less than that.
I need to keep that prior earning level as what I expect to make in the future if not more.

Our combined income is +- 30K and we have anything we want and are debt free.

anything? I need to make a little more than that to have most things. Like a vacation,clothes,shoes. I think I'll go rob a hobo. They seem to have all three.

I just found the thread that spawned the poll. The question seems more reasonable in the context of knowing who anom is and what is at stake. My # still isn't relevant due to industry and location differences so my privacy hang-up still has primacy.

:footpyth:

What is yuo and why do we care about its bacon? :eyebrow:

All of life is a quest for bacon

mmmm.... bacon wrapped cash.

...dunked in chocolate coins....nestled in a bread bowl...on a plate of diamonds...

I assume these numbers are post-Cellar beer mug donations.

Actually they are all post tax day amounts. :lol:

did anyone else deduct their tip jar contributions?

You can't. Legally.