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TIL the average salary for port workers is $147k.
by JabavuAdams 11y ago
TIL the average salary for port workers is $147k.
- fennecfoxen 11y agoWith benefits worth another $82,000 per year! They don't need to deduct from that salary for a 401(k), that's certain.
- Frondo 11y agoThat's the kind of quality of life a strong union will get you as a worker. No wonder the biggest business interests have undergone a decades-long propaganda campaign against them.
- enraged_camel 11y ago>>That's the kind of quality of life a strong union will get you as a worker. The flip side of the coin is that the quality of air you will breathe every single day is guaranteed to be abysmal, and air quality has a very strong inverse correlation with life span.
- JabavuAdams 11y agoWhy's the air so bad? Because of the bunker oil used on ships, or some other reason?
- tedks 11y agoThis is the link in that sentence: http://www.pmanet.org/the-ilwu-workforce http://www.pmanet.org/the-ilwu-workforce Clicking around on that site shows that it is a non-profit representing the companies that negotiate with the longshoreman's union: http://www.pmanet.org/ceo-message http://www.pmanet.org/ceo-message So it's the bosses' word that the average salary for port workers is 147k, and honestly I don't believe it.
- bsder 11y agoAnd what's the separation between the mean and the median? One worker making $1,000,000 and 9 making $10,000 gives you an average of $109,000 while only a single worker is above the mean.