How can you work for 26 years on a US salary, and then panic when you're laid off? Guess you have somewhere between 1/4 and 3/4 of a million USD, in some form. I'd lay myself off if I had something like that.
>Guess you have somewhere between 1/4 and 3/4 of a million USD, in some form.
Uh hardly. 2021 I worked 600 hours of overtime and didn't even break grossing 50k USD for the year. My take home pay for the last 15 years is probably around 300k USD, when I left 2 jobs ago for the job I was just laid off from I had a 49% increase in my income. Not everyone is making six figures. Median income in my state is just shy of 31k USD a year.
My wife as a high school educator was only making about 45k (with also about 15 years experience) until last year. She now makes more but she also has to drive 3x as far to get to work so it's almost a wash.
Uh hardly. 2021 I worked 600 hours of overtime and didn't even break grossing 50k USD for the year. My take home pay for the last 15 years is probably around 300k USD, when I left 2 jobs ago for the job I was just laid off from I had a 49% increase in my income. Not everyone is making six figures. Median income in my state is just shy of 31k USD a year.
My wife as a high school educator was only making about 45k (with also about 15 years experience) until last year. She now makes more but she also has to drive 3x as far to get to work so it's almost a wash.