What does a "high paying" job pay , these days?

[will work 4 food]

Is that with benefits?

[Catch22Dem]

1. All depends on where you live

My best friend makes a shitload more than me, but adjusted for cost of living, we're practically even.

[FlashHarry]

2. Depends where you live and how many dependents you have.

If you're single in Omaha and are making $50k, you're probably doing fairly well. However, the same salary with a couple of school-age kids would seem paltry. Same goes if you were living in Brooklyn.

[Misunderestimator]

3. Well, the definition for social security taxation...

of a "highly compensated employee" is one who makes $90,000 (for 2003 at least, I believe... and higher each year). After you reach that $90,000 no more social security taxes are deducted from your pay until the start of the new year.

Of course, figuratively speaking, it definitely matters where you live.

[SoCalDem]

4. It's all relative to where you live and what your personal

circumstances are..

A family of 4 in New York City would need waaaaay more income to live on par with a family of 4 in Dubuque, Iowa..

MY definition of "well-off" is simple..

You are well off:
if you can pay each bill as it comes in.
if you don't have to check your balance before you shop for shoes for your kids..
if you can buy a new car when you WANT, instead of when you NEED..
if you can pay for groceries with your ATM, instead of "hope your paycheck beats the one you just wrote to the grocery store"
if your bank account does not run out of money, before you run out of month..
if you can afford to move.

[Dogmudgeon]

5. It used to pay about $30 an hour

Now it pays $8 an hour if you can code C++, but you have to live in Uttar Pradesh.

--bkl

[tjwash]

6. That show pissed me off on discovery the other night.

Showing all the companies fleeing to India so they can pay slave wages, and, because of the extreme poor standard of living, these people have no clue how screwed over they are getting.

[dweller]

7. Regularly would be a plus....

and if i had a dollar left over at the end of the month, i'd call it a raise.

dp