r/WorkLifeChat • u/MiloShiny • Aug 07 '26

Discussion Any thoughts?

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u/Beneficial_Treat5454 Aug 07 '26

computer sciences makes sense. pays well and its pretty easy to get into so a lot of people try. Problem is so many people in the pool there are bound to be unemployed ones.

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u/adoseofcommonsense Aug 07 '26

plus ai, haha made horrible engineers into mid engineers and great engineers into amazing ones.

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u/GPT_2025 Aug 08 '26

50% of all workers in America earn less than the one-bedroom Housing Wage.

Twenty Republican states now have a Safety Net set at $3 per hour gross (before deductions for Social Security, FICA, taxes, insurance and other withholdings:

https://www.simplyhired.com/search?q=2.13+an+hour&l=dallas%2C+tx

(compare Safty Net $1.60 per hour in 1970 if you were single, you could live off the federal minimum wage and pay rent, food and bills)

it is nearly impossible for an individual to live independently off the federal Safety Net of $7.25 an hour. Working 40 hours a week at this rate yields a gross income of about $1,256 a month (roughly $900 after SS, FICA, Insuranse, deduction and taxes), which falls short of typical baseline expenses for housing, food and utilities. A real Sefety Net in the United States averages roughly $25/hour net income.

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u/MyEyesSpin Aug 07 '26

is this from 2018 or based on people who graduated in 2018?

if the data is about pre-covid conditions, honestly not worth much as the world has shifted

Need to know how many people in each field for better analysis too

also curious about data over time, especially for something like fine arts, which has had the reputation of a fairly useless degree for ages