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Started by FunkMonk, November 08, 2016, 11:02:57 PM

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Habbaku

Quote from: Syt on April 16, 2020, 11:25:05 AM
350 per week, let's call it 1400 per month, round it to 1500. Plus 50% (1.5x mentioned) is 2250. Is that a high net income in the US if you have mortgage/rent to pay? Does it include health insurance?

Not really, no. The median for a household in the USA is somewhere ~$60k/year, or $5000/month. If we assume the above figure is for a 2-earner household, then it's enough to make up the majority of the median, at least. Not exactly high-society living, but they shouldn't starve or be booted from their home. Health insurance is most definitely not covered, though...

As Sheilbh mentioned, there are other considerations as well, none of which have been taken into account.
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katmai

Quote from: Habbaku on April 16, 2020, 11:31:20 AM
Quote from: katmai on April 16, 2020, 11:26:12 AM
I'm getting $743 a week (yay Washington UI...Max is $790). Add the $600 and I'm getting $1,343 to be unemployed.

Yeah, and this is why the $1200 figure is really just...weird in many places. UI in Washington is more than double Georgia's cap!
yeah the max for Alaska is $370 a week.
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katmai

Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 16, 2020, 11:37:44 AM
Alabama's is $245 a week.  :lol:
california is like $450. Washington's is ridiculously good.
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son

Habbaku

The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.

-J. R. R. Tolkien

Syt

Quote from: katmai on April 16, 2020, 11:39:00 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 16, 2020, 11:37:44 AM
Alabama's is $245 a week.  :lol:
california is like $450. Washington's is ridiculously good.

I presume because of the tech jobs there and associated cost of living? :unsure:
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katmai

Quote from: Syt on April 16, 2020, 11:41:19 AM
Quote from: katmai on April 16, 2020, 11:39:00 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 16, 2020, 11:37:44 AM
Alabama's is $245 a week.  :lol:
california is like $450. Washington's is ridiculously good.

I presume because of the tech jobs there and associated cost of living? :unsure:
Im sure Seattle and it's $15 minimum wage doesn't hurt yes.
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son

Syt

Tbf, my knowledge about Seattle comes from Frasier, Shadowrun, and the movie Virtuosity with Denzel Washington and Russel Crowe. :P
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

PDH

California max weekly is $1300 I think.
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Tonitrus

Quote from: Syt on April 16, 2020, 11:57:29 AM
Tbf, my knowledge about Seattle comes from Frasier, Shadowrun, and the movie Virtuosity with Denzel Washington and Russel Crowe. :P

Shadowrun is the closest to reality.  Just replace the NAN surrounding Seattle with the reservation casinos surrounding Seattle.

Habbaku

Quote from: PDH on April 16, 2020, 12:28:33 PM
California max weekly is $1300 I think.

Weekly max in California seems to be $450.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.

-J. R. R. Tolkien

PDH

Quote from: Habbaku on April 16, 2020, 01:00:43 PM
Quote from: PDH on April 16, 2020, 12:28:33 PM
California max weekly is $1300 I think.

Weekly max in California seems to be $450.
I could be stoned, pass me the pipe, Yi
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

-------
"I'm pretty sure my level of depression has nothing to do with how much of a fucking asshole you are."

-CdM

Admiral Yi


Sheilbh

Map of states coordinating on their lockdown:


Was Tim: right? :mellow: :hmm:
Let's bomb Russia!

Admiral Yi

What does coordinating on their lockdown mean?