US average salery.

[MrQuick]

As I told you many times Al, you gotta get the right job and fight to get it.

When I was a dealer tech @ Dodge I was making $43 an hour and it was the norm. A few friends at porsche are doing $120K+ a year working 5 days a week.

You just have to look around a hunt for it. If you are skilled and make it known they come for you.

[UNBROKEN]

All I know is I'm ready to go back to Texas. I took on a project in southern California for 14 months...I'm 8 months in now. I leased a house in Hermosa Beach with a 1/2 ass view of the water for $5800 a month. Things are crazy expensive out here vs home.

[MrQuick]

All I know is I'm ready to go back to Texas. I took on a project in southern California for 14 months...I'm 8 months in now. I leased a house in Hermosa Beach with a 1/2 ass view of the water for $5800 a month. Things are crazy expensive out here vs home.

You should be happy you see actual water and not a night time view of Cracklevania.

[bikefreak600]

i am forklift operator, my income varies year to year, average 42k-48k per year + benefits. my 2 bedroom/2bath 1250 sq.ft. single level house w/ 24 x 24 detached garage sitting on 1 acre cost me $565 per month escrow (mortage, taxes & insurance). i live out in the country, 16 mile/20 min drive to work all highway. northern central Illinois

[ccmc]

Sacramento, CA average income 48k.
I'm a network engineer and make 80k+ a year. 1500 sq ft home bought for 190k worth about 250k

My dad was a diesel mechanic over 30 years. Became shop foreman and made 90k but it was at a well run kenworth franchise

[SLO_Z28]

Wow... I'd love to know where you got that. I make around $35k a year and in the SF Bay Area, I'm lucky to be able to live at home and help my parents. I can't really afford to move out without finding a roommate. Well, I could try and get a second job, but then I'd just be living out of my car and probably not sleeping at all. Jobs aren't really hard to come by, but homes are beginning to. Hell, studio apartments around here I haven't seen going for less than $600 a month. 1 bedroom apartments go for $1100 on up. Hell, the apartments across the street from me at 2 bedrooms/1 bath go for at least $2k a month.

You rent an entire house for $350?
I didn't think that existed in CA, anywhere.

I rent a house in Stockton, and commute to Sacramento on weekdays, and spend weekends here in Redwood City. I could buy my house for less than a new SS camaro.My girlfriends apartment in Redwood City is $1700/mo. As soon as I can transfer out to the bay area we are looking at buying a home. She just graduated college and now works at a Bio Tech company making 90k/yr plus stock options (that are going to be worth a TON) and we are looking at houses in the 550-600k range.

Where in redwood do you live Zbugger? Were over by the city maintenance yard.

[Mizzouri]

The only REAL problem with our economy is the repressive burden of a government that has grown far too large for the public to support. The weight of those that refuse to be productive upon those that sustain themselves has become unbearable. You can then add to this over-regulation that stifels economic growth and investment and you have our current stagnation. LITTLE of what you hear there is reported here because that would tarnish the reputation of our "fearless leader" and the "lap dog" media here would not report such inflamitory truth.

So sad, so true unfortunately.

[FlyDoc]

my Daughter and son in law teach, teach & coach they make $2300. & 3200. and they are in Lampasas & Cove TX. there pay is on the average low they have only been teaching a few years.
my son is getting only about $8./hr. which for a Honda / Harley Davidson grad from MMI. he is working at a small shop in the middle of Nebraska. there is some positives for him, his vision is very poor, and he was fresh out of school. that only gives him about $300. a week. he lives with grandma which helps, but he could not afford to live on his own. But when his Broncho needed tires, water pump, & radiator, his boss picked up the bill. and he likes the people he works for. so maybe in about a year he will find a job that should pay about 15-20/hr.

my wife is a nurse here in Hawaii she makes $45/hr.
but we pay $2900. for rent on a 1500sqft, with a 450sqft garage. and cost of living is just high!