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Average mean of income?

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  1. Downtown Sniper

    Downtown Sniper Member

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    What is an average mean of income in the United States that one can live off of without being on the poverty line/living lavishly.

    I look at a lot of Admin jobs at a lot of Universities and I see the majority of them range from $30,000 - $42,000 or so.

    Is that enough money for someone to rent/pay for bills/still manage to live a life?

    I note that Sydney has now surpassed a lot of cities in cost of living - but for doing that type of job in Sydney you're salary would be around 55K.
     
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  2. FishBulb913

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    Average mean?
     
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  3. CometsWin

    CometsWin Breaker Breaker One Nine

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    Depends on the area of the country. The cost of living can vary a lot. In Houston you could make it okay as a single person making $35k. Not a lot of luxuries in that budget though.
     
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  4. Downtown Sniper

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    You know what I meant.
    Remove one of those words
     
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  5. Downtown Sniper

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    Yeah I was meaning Texas.

    Would a place outside of a major district vary much between say the heart of Houston?
     
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  6. CometsWin

    CometsWin Breaker Breaker One Nine

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    Don't understand your question. Inside the loop in Houston has become kind of trendy and its changed a lot the last few years. The city is kind of splitting into in loopers and out of loopers. Not sure what rents are like inside the loop but I would guess its become more expensive than outside the loop in a lot of areas.
     
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    I only know the middle median.
     
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  8. Haymitch

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    The average mean, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, is 14.

    See their paper: "Average Mean and the Cost of Life Living"
     
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    [​IMG]

    I only know round circles...:grin:...:p
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    If you were single making 40k in Houston, living near work where you didn't have to burn a lot of gas, you could be just fine. So long as you don't go out and get a used BMW or do something stupid, you can be comfortable.

    Rents are going up though so whatever living arrangements you make initially could be much more expensive in a couple years.
     
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    do they have google in Australia?
     
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    My first job out of college I was making $45k, and I thought it was lavish.

    (since I was making around $12k in college, it nearly quadrupled my income)

    I mean, you probably can't buy a house, but you can certainly live a normal life.
     
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  13. Yonkers

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    made me lol
     
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  14. Yonkers

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    Exactly. I don't know why people are saying $40k you'd be barely getting by. You would get by fine. You'd have a safe place to life. A care to drive. And be able to go out every once in a while. Can you party all the time? Own a house? Drive a luxury car? Take European vacations? No. But you'd still live a very nice life.
     
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    Did you know that in Australia, Burger King is actually called Hungry Jack's?

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  16. Yonkers

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    Cause of the metric system?
     
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    Agreed. As long as you have a safe place to life and a care to drive, what else matters?

    I drive my care often, and my place to life is very safe.
     
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    Some people say they could care less. But that's not right. They must be driving luxury cares. But if they lived on $40k a year they couldn't care less.
     
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    that's because "burger" actually means vagina in Australian vernacular
     
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  20. Yonkers

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    That's what they call 'vag-emite sandwich'.
     
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