"NYC roll off dumpster driver under a Teamster union contract. $40 an hour in January + medical and pension paid 100% by my employer. There’s guaranteed overtime too, so gross around $130k + the other perks. We also get a 100k severance payout the day we retire. I have a bachelors in business, but fell in love with being outside all day. I also sell scrap metal if I can collect it and I have a thriving eBay business from other things I find in the dumpsters. Made another 20-25k doing that on the side."
Yes it’s important, but not $130k per year important.
Yeah it’s important, but not $130k a year important.
you are failing to understand that the salary is not based on how important/cool your work is. It's based on the amount of jobs available and the amount of people willing to do that work.
If everybody applies to be a Garbage Collector, the salary will go down to minimum wage. On the other hand, if nobody applies for the Garbage Collector job, then the salary will go up significantly.
Wrong. They’re unionized. So their salaries are artificially inflated.
You can tell me there wouldn’t be a line around the block to get paid $130k a year for working 40 hours a week.
Taxes and mandatory insurance (health, unemployment, pension fund) are at about 35% altogether. Work is 35h per week. Paid overtime, 6 weeks of paid vacation, paid sick-leave.
Remember Pearl Harbor.