How much would you pay yourself …

Posted by: bob parmelee
Under: Recent Posts
24 Nov 2009

How much would you pay yourself …

if you were in charge of your own salary?

HYMM

If the truth were told I suppose most of the good,
hard-working, honest, God fearing people of this
nation would be embarrassed to pay themselves
more than $100,000 per year.

They would dedicate their life and limb to doing
the best job possible for that kind of money. They
would pay their taxes, make their mortgage
payments, pay their bills on time, send their kids
to college and in general be good neighbors and
good citizens.

Unfortunately, there aren’t enough 100 K jobs left
to support a village anymore. In fact, there aren’t
enough 40 K jobs, or 20 K jobs, or minimum wage
jobs either. You can still find plenty of work to do
for free.

The top dogs make an average of 400 times the
average base pay per hour. That means if you
make $10 an hour they make $4000. Heck, that’s
still less than $1 million a year. That’s mere pocket
change to the boys with the big appetites on the Street.

I’m not the first to suggest that maybe, just maybe
something is rotten in America. Somewhere over the
past century Denmark started smelling like tulips
and we started smelling like, well, industrial waste.
(Hello New Jersey)

The average serf hasn’t gone far since he crossed
the pond.

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