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Originally Posted by nation-x
$6.55 is current minimum wage I believe.
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It goes up to $7.25 on July 24th.
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Originally Posted by woj
It's very doable, obviously won't be able to afford any luxuries, but it's not THAT hard...
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bullshit. Even where I live where you can get a 1 bedroom apartment for $328 a month and no state income tax it's hard to live on $7.25 an hour.
Let's do math
$7.25 X 40 = $290 per week
$290 X 52 weeks = $15,080 a year
Now no matter what you are geting FICA taxes taken out and you don't get those back. FICA taxes are 7.65%
$15,080 X.9235 = $13,926 after FICA atxes are taken out.
Being single gets you a standard deduction of $5450 and $3500 for your personal exemption.
So $5450 + $3500 = $8950.
$8950 is what you'd get to deduct off your income of $15,080. So $15,080 - $8950 = $6130
$6130 is what you'd have to pay taxes on. Since that would be in the 10% backet that would be $613.
So $13,926( amount left after FICA ) -$613 for income tax = $13,313. I'm not even counting state income taxes.
$13,313/52 weeks = $256 a week to live off of.
Good luck living off of $256 a week. Of course you could a get a 2nd job( inthis economy yeah right ) but remember the first $2000 off that extra income is taxed at a total of 17.65%( FICA and income tax ) everything after that is taxed at 22.65% since you'd be in the 15% tax bracket. So even a 2nd 40 hour job at $7.25 an hour would end up bringing in $11,766 after taxes.
So one could bust their ass working 80 hours a week and only bring home $25k a year after taxes. Which is about $6 an hour after taxes.