Hourly Pay Rates

by palmtree67 39 Replies latest jw friends

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  aSphereisnotaCircle

  Boy, wages are really low in the States.

  Massage therapists here charge $80-100 for 45 mins.

  If you are self-employed you can collect that fee also, more if you do medical massage, but then you have all your business overhead to pay.

  The place I work at charges about $100 for 50 minutes, but they pay the therapist a lot less because they are paying for the overhead.

  I've done both, right now i love having someone else have all the headache and I only have to think about work when I'm clocked in.

  When your self-employed you never get to clock out.
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  wunce_wuz

  Technology field. Just shy of $40/hr.
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  palmtree67

  Hmmmm......is anyone else noticing how much better it is to have some real education?

  My man has a degree in purchasing and makes 140,000/yr. Not sure what that is an hour.

  It would be hard to support yourself on a high school education these days.

  Also, you need to be a hard worker, like mr. flipper!!
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  its_me!

  Wow, everyone here makes more than me when I was in the working world. The job market here in the midwest of the United States is so bad, I am going to school to get an associate's degree, just so I can MAYBE make $14.00 an hour! It is very hard here right now!
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  crapola

  I clean offices and houses and earn around $25 an hour .
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  DaCheech

  when I was working for others I made $27/hr............ now I make a whole lot more
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  Quentin

  Land Surveying Tech(Texas)...$11-$18 hr....depends on who you work for....layed off last week, so my pay is now whatever I can get...
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  sooner7nc

  EVS Manager at a small hospital. $18 an hour

  2nd job painting houses $20 to $30 an hour

  Working for myself. Anywhere from $20 to $100 an hour.
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  dissed

  We are semi-retired, living off investments (so glad we left the JW's 13 years ago)

  We pay our help on the farm, $10/hr for manual chores and our maintenance person $20/hr. Northern Arizona
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  bluecanary

  Wow, so far I'm the poorest person on the thread. I'm working on an associate's degree in Early Childhood Development. The US does NOT value early childcare workers. They average about $325 per week. It works out in my favor that I don't have to go to school longer (or at all, but I'll feel better having a degree and training) but it sucks that you don't make much money at a job that's so fundamentally important. I earned more money waiting tables.

  I'd like to go to school longer but I'm getting older. I'd like to have kids and I'd like to be home with those kids so this field will work best for me. Plus teaching young children lets me feel like I'm making a meaningful contribution to society.