Is $75,000.00 a year income a good income? OR.... should I opt for $35.00 an hour instead?
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Depends, are you going to work more than an hour of overtime a week? If so, you'll get more money if you go with the hourly, otherwise, working 40 hour weeks, 75K/yr will gross you about 2K more.\n\nA yearly salary is wonderful, especially for budgeting purposes. It isn't affected by sick leave or vacation time, and you aren't going to lose out on money just because you aren't there.\nHourly feels better when the job is involves long nights or extra weekends (something you may have to do anyway if you are on salary); but adds variance to your paycheck. \n\nPersonally, because I don't get sick often, I like my work, and I like the idea of putting in an extra hour when I need to so I can make an extra buck, I'd go with the hourly. But if the whole guaranteed check makes you happy, do it instead.
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Go To Salary.com hope that helps you.
1057452
I have been in this business for five years and I made 250k last year. The year before that was 70k. The other three years were at about 25-35k. It may take you some time but it is well worth it.
987750
Not good, $5.15 an hour is ridiculous. No one could live on that small amount of money.
96842
That depends on the part of the country. It can range from $25K to $75K. location is key.
255296
Rule of thumb, 2.5 times income
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45K is a good starting salary for many occupations.  The cost of living for your area is really a factor, as well as the skills that you have.\n\nA better question might be "What is the average starting salary in my geographic area, in my field of expertise".  Not knowing your geographic area, or expertise, all we can comment on is the number.\n\nThe number 45K is high for a lot of college graduates across the country.  I know of many who start in the 20's, who don't have good grades or applicable skills.  On the other hand, if you are graduating from Medical School, and setting up practice in California, then perhaps you should be looking for 100K+!\n\nCheck with your school, to see what the average starting salaries were last year.  Most colleges track this information.  It helps employers and employees!
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Go for the lower paying job you will like.  I just gave up a $100k yr job  that I hated and took me away from my family and now will be looking at getting a $35 to $40k job that I enjoy.  Believe me, it's worth it....
1134053
depends how much work you have to do. I would say like 7 or 8 $ an hour.
835276
10% to 15% is usual. Depends on if they did more than required or treated you very good. $90 is a lot of dough, you should consider if it is really worth it.
442240
Depends where you live and the average pay for the area. Do you mean in a band, or solo? If you're good, you could easily make $100.00 per hour. It's your call when it comes to how much weekly, as you would choose how much you would play during the week.
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I don't know what type of work you do. I was working for others. I couldn't find a job that paid more than 12 dollars an hour. This was 10 years ago. \nI needed more. I can't live off of that. So I ran an ad in the paper. The phone started ringing. I've never looked back. I started out very modest. 15 an hour. I was a steal. People kept tipping me and telling me to raise my rates. It wasn't easy. Long hours for a couple years. 16 hour days and getting paid for 7 or less.\nIt took me about 5 years to become well established. I'm now the guy everyone wants. I make more than triple what I did in the beginning working 1/3 as much. I'm not a greedy man but people doing the same thing I do get much more than that. I do give myself an occasional raise when I'm tired of working. That helps a lot. It's not easy being the boss. Being able to take a day or a week off anytime you want sure is nice though. \nHere's the best advice I ever got.\n-- \n"Be where you're supposed to be when you're supposed to be there. Do what you're supposed to do when you're supposed to do it".\n--\nThose words were said to me by a man who came to America at age 18 with twenty dollars in his pocket. He died a multi-millionaire. I used to hear those words in my head everyday while working. No doubt they helped. Good luck!\n.
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In terms of salary: depends. Whether you work on your own, and then, what you get is all yours...(and hourly fees can be rather ...interesting..). Or you enter a company, and you get a salary. Anyway, it's pretty good money... \n\nIn terms of hours: there is the busy season, when the financial statements are made, and there's the rest of the year, when you have to keep the day-to-day books and all... Quite a bit of work.\n\nAnyway, if you want to become a Chartered Certified Accountant, I'd strongly advise you to go for it. I'm about to do it myself, although I am aware of what it brings. I want a family myself, in a couple of years, but I think I will manage to mix the two.\n\nGood luck! :-)
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Income depends on outcome.\n\nIf you work hard and improve your work methods every day, in order to improve the QUALITY or the QUANTITY of what you produce (i.e. the outcome), then you will never have to worry about your income.\n\nTo answer your question specifically, especially the part "without having to do that much work," I would say that the solution is to find work that you really, really want to do.\n\nThe more you want to do it, the less it will feel like work!\n\nThis may sound crazy to some people, because we often associate "work" with "necessary evil."\n\nBut that's because people confuse "work" (which you do to get paid and pay the bills) and "Work" -- with a capital "W" (which you do because that is your talent, your purpose in life).\n\nMost people KNOW what it is that they are good at. But they are afraid to go for it. They would rather go for the safe bet.\n\nEverybody has at least one talent. What is lacking, I think, is the courage to go to the dark places where that talent will take you. Yes, it's hard. But the incredible reward, if you decide to do what you love to do and are good at, is that you will never have to work a single day in your life.\n\nThis 19-year-old, who launched www.mobiletracker.net, proved it. He gets paid $55,000 a year to work only three hours per day (right beside his pool at home).
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Minimum wage is not necessarily a bad thing. Imagine if you will, what would happen if there were no minimum wage. There are a number of companies today that pay there entry level employees minimum wage. (Usual manual labor or low skill level jobs) If there were no minimum wage, these companies would pay their employees less. If minimum wage is currently $5.15/hr I believe. So am employee making minimum wage works 50 hors per week, that's 40 regular hours at $5.15 ($206.00) and 10 over time at $7.725 ($77.25) per hour, then they would earn $283.25 pre week. That's about $1,133.00 per month. Depending on where you live, that's the coast of an apartment... In some places, it not enough for an apartment. Since I live in Central Delaware, let me us this local as an example. \nIncome: $1,133 /mo\nTaxes:  $113.00 / mo (10% based on regular hours)\nStarting Cash: $1,000.00\nCheep, run down one bedroom apartment:  $500.00 /mo\nCar insurance of an old car:                       $ 65.00 /mo\nElectric, assuming low usage:                     $ 65.00 /mo\nHome Phone, assuming no extras               $ 35.00 /mo\nFuel for Car, assuming used for work only   $ 60.00 /mo\nGroceries fro one Assuming frugality           $250.00 /mo\nTOTAL:                                                    $975.00 /mo\nRemainder: (For emergencies, savings, \nRecreation, etc...)                                     $ 25.00 /mo\n\nGranted, that at the end of the year, this person would receive a tax refund of about $5,891.60, but that doesn’t help this person on a daily bases the rest of the year. \n\nNow, consider that these same companies provide an average of a 6% raise per year. (The nation average last Time I checked was just over 3% but I'm trying to make a point) After the employees first year with the company, they would be earning 1,200.98 per month. After 5 years, they would be earning 1516.21 per month. Assuming that the cost of living went up only 2% each year, below the national average I might add, after five years, the employee in question would now have an amazing $436.42 per month unaccounted for. This means that this person could now get basic cable, purchase better groceries. (I'm q single guy and I shop fairly conservatively and I still spend nearly 350 per month on groceries and things for the apartment.) If you include this basic changes to his life style, this employee, after 5 years of working hard would have less then 286.42 per month for things other then daily living. This does not include many of the normal things most Americans enjoy such as a cell phone, internet access, etc. \n\nOkay, that's WITH a minimum wage. Imagine if there was no minimum wage an companies started hiring people at 3.00 per hour. Assuming 50 hours again, that's only $165.00 per week or about 660 per month. That doesn’t cover food and shelter. If these people were to work 2 minimum wage jobs, 40 hours each, they would still only have 960.00 per month.  That still doesn’t cover the basic listed above in this area, and if you think that companies would not take advantage of people this way, you have a lot to learn about American businesses. \n\nMany American companies are not above keeping employees as close to minimums they can. In fact, there are many companies now that reward proficiency and hard work with termination. With the "At Will"\n laws in many states today, if an employee mentions the word, union, they are terminated on the spot, and it's legal. Add to that the fact that these same companies periodically fire members of there senior staff because these people 'make too much money' because they have been around too long and know too much and you have some major unfair business practices. But that is a different issue. My point is that these companies would exploit people to no end if it weren't for the minimum wage law.
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I knew a manager that made 25,000 thousand a year but she'd worked at the restaurant from age 16 to age 23 which is when she was promoted to manager. There are teachers, unfortunately, who make that much and less. In todays cost of living scenario 25,000 dollars just isn't that much money unless you have no children and no costly financial demands.