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My plumber charges me $80/hr in the bay area. Now that's ~50% above the poverty line, but it's >2x the median wage around me.
by varelse 9y ago
My plumber charges me $80/hr in the bay area. Now that's ~50% above the poverty line, but it's >2x the median wage around me.
- throwawayjava 9y agoIf only every employee received {total revenue generated by company}/{# of employees in company}. :-)
- varelse 9y agoWell, either he's pocketing a large fraction of that or he's up to his eyeballs in debt looking at his new boat and his fancy new truck. Methinks you're overanalyzing it.
- throwawayjava 9y agoTo the contrary. We have actual data that directly answers the question "what is the typical take-home pay of plumbers". You just have to look at the damn table. Why keep insisting on proxy variables and anecdotes?