🍹Early to RISA 🧉M to Greentext · 2 days agoAnon gets a jobimagemessage-square89fedilinkarrow-up1467arrow-down135
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minus-squareRekorselinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 hours agoThats something like 50 percent of your pay in my area.
minus-squarethebigslime@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·9 hours ago$17/hr can afford ~$880/mo. rent. Not impossible, especially with a roommate or domestic partner.
minus-squareSirfedora@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 hours agoYou forgot about other things like food, probably a car, phone bill.
minus-squarethebigslime@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 hours agoI did not. I calculated rent as 30% of income, the level generally considered affordable. Admittedly it is pre-tax income, so arguably the number is a bit lower, but it’s a start.
minus-squareRekorselinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 hours agoI did it by after tax cause thats how people actually live.
Thats something like 50 percent of your pay in my area.
$17/hr can afford ~$880/mo. rent. Not impossible, especially with a roommate or domestic partner.
You forgot about other things like food, probably a car, phone bill.
I did not. I calculated rent as 30% of income, the level generally considered affordable. Admittedly it is pre-tax income, so arguably the number is a bit lower, but it’s a start.
I did it by after tax cause thats how people actually live.