Ask Lemmy

I think what I get is ok, because I adjust my effort to the payment.

I don't think I could give 100% effort at work, that would burn me out in no time and that's not worth any money.

They wouldn't want me to give 100% effort. There are too many people around me who are new or poorly trained or incompetent. My 100% would involve addressing the poor leadership, poor processes, poor accountability mechanisms that have us in our current situation. So since they would likley fire me for it, they would need to pay me at least three years of industry-standard salary for my position to make up for time unemployed and the black mark on my job history.

I'll do anything for a room, food, security, internet, and a few thousand dollars a year for electronics and bike parts. I'm pretty useless but will try as hard as I can manage. I can't really go anywhere, and I need someone to do my grocery shopping. I'm out of the house for a PT routine most days for around 1-2 hours. I'm quiet, and don't say much, but I cook a ton of really good food once every couple of weeks, I grow stuff, ferment stuff, will do your laundry and care for the cats. I'm in a lot of pain, but you'll see that I care a ton in my own ways. I can fix almost anything from a car to electronics to household stuff but I'm super slow. Physically I exist for around 1 hour a day where I can be upright and working on something. I'd love someone to unspeakable levels if they wanted me. Money has no value to me. I just want stability and security to live the best version of what remains of my existence. I can't travel or do much else without causing me harm. When I become homeless in the future, I won't last very long. I don't know how to put a number on that.

Anybody with a full time job should be able to comfortably afford a home, car and protect their health and future.

The fact that this isn't the case is caused by unfettered greed.

Google says i should make ~$150k. The sheer scope and complexity of my work deserves far more in my opinion. That and stupid tax to deal with a major corporation. So, I'll round up to an even $200k. Full effort... $300k.

I should be able to own a home and raise a family on a single income as an engineer.

Glassdoor says that I should be making 90k or so

I am struggling with "fair" here. I'm pretty well paid for the public sector, but the private sector would offer a 50%+ increase with a noticable loss of stability. So I don't know. I do think they should have promoted me years ago though .

One MILLLLLION dollars.

At least $100k with all the bullshit they put us through. 🙄

But if they got me to $80k—$90k, I'd be a quieter worker bee.

Eh, I'd be happy with $30 hourly. At 70 hours a week (line cook) I'd be making around $100k. I was making 87¢ an hour above minimum wage at the place I just left. I gave 100% anyway because if I didn't the experience really sucked

I don't know because I think if people got paid fair wages the world would look very different, and the cost of living calculations we currently use to determine fair wages would change in ways I can't predict.

I think that with aggressive progressive taxes, we'd see the range of incomes get compressed, and lift lower incomes. I'm not entirely sure how that'd affect cost of living, it'd probably go up, but wages would go up more.

But if I had to guess, if say everyone should be making between $100k and $300k, and I should probably be somewhere in the middle of that.

I already give 100% effort at work. I make an average of $37.50/hr, waiting tables. I wouldn't accept less than $35 as a straight wage if I were to forgo tips.

$175k.

$275k to full tilt. It wouldn’t be worth it because I’d quit in a year.

My actual job - a little more than i make. Dealing with the BS - priceless.

My work is worth a hell of a lot less than I'm actually paid considering how many irrelevant meetings I have to attend, and probably a solid one million per year would do it. No promises I won't start slacking as soon as your back is turned and I feel comfortable.

With my experience and technical background, I've learned I'm way underpaid, even among my peers in my company.

$215k annual would be what I consider fair.

I actually think I get paid a decent wage at ~$35/hr (CAD) but the cost of living is just so goddamn high where I live that it's not quite enough to get me by comfortably. So really, if I were doing this job elsewhere then that's fine, my job's really not that hard. but realistically, because of the state of my province, I'd give them my 100% for 45. They seem pretty happy with the 75% I'm putting in now though (some days less).

I work at a bakery. I would love to earn my regular hourly wage and deep clean everything that gets a cursory daily scrub, but they’d need to staff an additional person that day or have me come in overnight.

We’re a comparatively clean bakery, but it’s just not possible to maintain an environment that’s perfect for yeast to grow without also making it a perfect environment for everything else to grow perfectly as well.

They pay me €15/hour which feels like more than I actually need or would expect for the work I do, but I’m trying to work on that. Obviously I contribute more than €15/hour if that’s what they pay me, it’s just almost double what I’ve earned at similar jobs in the US and 2/3 of what I earned there at an insurance company analyzing contracts, so it seems wild to get that for customer service.

Realistically like $35/hr. Honestly I probably make a lot more than that for the company I work for. Considering the abysmal hours with absolutely no consistency, that should add atleast another 10$/hr.

If I take my pay in 1999 and adjust for inflation that's about $70k, so that would be about fair probably. Two of those (two income family) is about what it would take to be comfortable here too. Very comfortable if no kids.

A thousand dollars a day. I work hard to complete pain & exhaustion and people appreciate the service I provide and they request me and come back for more. And it completely wears me out body mind and soul. Now let's factor in the cost of living. I feel my labor is worth $1,000 a day. I know that's not too much to ask because there are plenty of miscreants out in the world who don't work half as hard as I do but they earn a lot more.

About tree fiddy.

I should get paid a lot less for typing on a keyboard all day, but oh well.

What the company profits from my labor, less expenses.

I make $19.40 as a solo arena attendant. We charge $130 minimum for an hour of ice time up to $250.

I'm not privvy to what the lights/ refrigeration system cost to run per hour, but I'm sure it's not the total difference.

whatever it costs to add the same amount of time to my enjoyable lifespan

I'd just like to keep what I earn, taxes are ridiculous.