• dunestorm@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    $112k/yr is a crazy amount of money; I also work in IT in a pretty high up position, I wish I even made half that…

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        Yeah, in Manhattan that’s like middle class. Making that in a rural or suburban area and you’d be considered wealthy.

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      1 year ago

      I worked for Disney+ (got laid off about a month ago) as a Linux Systems Engineer, so it’s not like I worked for a small company doing Windows desktop support (I was making 50k/year doing that in NYC, $30k/year doing the same thing about 3 hours south in NJ). It is a significant amount of money, but the taxes screwed me, I’d only see about 85k of it, couple that with 10% tax on everything and the increased prices of living in the most expensive city in the US and it’s not as much as you think it is. About 60% of my monthly income went to rent and bills.

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          Yeah, big companies are good but also kinda suck because they lay you off at the drop of a hat as soon as they don’t make as much as they expect.