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by robocat 1149 days ago
> as little as $19 an hour

That is about $40k per year.

Median individual income in San Francisco was $63,934 in 2021[1].

USA incomes are usually given for the household and are usually given as the average, which makes it hard to compare against an hourly amount. median individual income was $37,522 for the USA[2].

[1] https://www.deptofnumbers.com/income/california/san-francisc...

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N

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It’s hard to really grok what the means for this type of comparison. For census data, information is self-reported and often under reported income doesn’t include many common sources of money.

Additionally, median income driven down by the number of people living on social security, and many of those get benefits like housing subsidy that aren’t income.

It’s a good metric to compare areas, not jobs.

$40k/year in Austin (approximately the median individual income, per Google) probably goes further than $64k in SF.