[Info-vax] Apparently none of you are desperate enough to work for $25K/yr

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/9/2011 2:54 PM, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> In article<_q6dnWdHsvIM79zTnZ2dnUVZ_uCdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B.
> Gilbert"<rgilbert88 at comcast.net>  writes:
>> $25K/yr?????  Can ANYONE, in the U.S., afford to work for such a meager
>> salary?  I retired eight years ago and, at that time, the salary range
>> for a VMS System Manager ranged from $50K to $70K!
>
> I suspect that $25K/yr is pretty close to the average US salary---not
> total salaries divided by total number of people but total salaries of
> full-time workers divided by the number of full-time workers.  Of
> course, the average salary for a VMS system manager is higher.  Many
> people do live on $25K per year.

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2011/tables/11s0702.pdf

Arne