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Yea and the majority of people don’t make anywhere near 400k. You still need a huge low paid workforce to get things running. Firemen, police, teacher, retail a
by wil421 8y ago
Yea and the majority of people don’t make anywhere near 400k. You still need a huge low paid workforce to get things running. Firemen, police, teacher, retail and grocery workers, cleaners, bus drivers, plumbers and the like.
- gm-conspiracy 8y agoI do not consider plumbers low-paid.
- wil421 8y agoI would agree with you and I actually looked up some numbers. 56k was an average for an experienced plumber on his own. Not to mention they have to invest in tools.
- mkirklions 8y agoNone of those positions are low paid outside of teenage retail/grocery workers. Fire/police/teacher/plumbers are very well paid. Cleaning is hit and miss, specialty cleaning is borderline extortion. Still, I know that most cleaning people get paid min 15$/hr. At 15$/hr, 30k/yr is plenty to live.
- mistrial9 8y agoplease show specific details on your claim that teachers are well-paid
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- mitchdoogle 8y agofire, police, teacher, and plumbers are all in the $40k - $60k range, at least in the US. I wouldn't call that well paid.
- Hydraulix989 8y agoI remember an article showing up a while back about a unionized BART janitor raking in nearly 300k.
- Obi_Juan_Kenobi 8y agoThat's someone who learned how to game the OT system. A real issue, sure, but not at all indicative of how much BART employees make. It's the same kind of manipulative bullshit that spawned the 'Welfare Queen' myth.
- wil421 8y agoSo your example is one Janitor out of how many in SF?