"The Median U.S. Salary is Probably Not What You Think"

[DeputyDong5]

Don't chit on trades man. They're probably the hardest working people in society and do real meaningful chit. Without trades we wouldn't have houses, hospitals, offices, or roads. Every nut and bolt has more value than some papers being pushed.


Engineering is a great career, but some still design chit that makes zero sense, too expensive, hard to repair, etc. Poster you're arguing with is right when he says trades and techs have to make on the fly adjustments.


And work culture wise, I'd much rather be around tradies in the field than in office dealing with politics and dumb sloots.

lol @ tradies crew

lol harder @ tradie sympathizers

they aren't going to take you home and pork you... you aren't a hog with a cigarette cough and 3 kids from 3 men

I could be a tradie

they couldn't be engineers. Attempt to have an intellectual conversation with a tradie one day. their mental capacity peaks at, round peg go in round hole.

[SillieBazzillie]

Don't chit on trades man. They're probably the hardest working people in society and do real meaningful chit. Without trades we wouldn't have houses, hospitals, offices, or roads. Every nut and bolt has more value than some papers being pushed.


Engineering is a great career, but some still design chit that makes zero sense, too expensive, hard to repair, etc. Poster you're arguing with is right when he says trades and techs have to make on the fly adjustments.


And work culture wise, I'd much rather be around tradies in the field than in office dealing with politics and dumb sloots.

LOL at tradies.

Imagine thinking that being around unsophisticated, emotionally immature dudes who think that acting like they're in middle school is the way for a grown man to behave.

I'll stick to hanging out with educated, accomplished folks who have more goals in life than hitting up the 7-11 each morning for their monster, skoal, big bites, and scratchies and then going home and drinking themselves into oblivion each night.

Yes we need tradies. They just need to be carefully supervised and controlled so they stay in their tradie lane.

[r32gojirra]

LOL at tradies.

Imagine thinking that being around unsophisticated, emotionally immature dudes who think that acting like they're in middle school is the way for a grown man to behave.

I'll stick to hanging out with educated, accomplished folks who have more goals in life than hitting up the 7-11 each morning for their monster, skoal, big bites, and scratchies and then going home and drinking themselves into oblivion each night.

Yes we need tradies. They just need to be carefully supervised and controlled so they stay in their tradie lane.

#justpoorpeoplethings

Imagine being out of the workforce for years while studying, accumulating student debt and working in a soul-crushing 9-5 job that’s actually 60 hours a week just to be MOGGED by a teenager in a dodge ram that’s worth more than your house

And that’s before you find out he banged your wife because you couldn’t figure out how to fix the roof leak

Yeah if that were me I’d be mad too

[DeputyDong5]

#justpoorpeoplethings

Imagine being out of the workforce for years while studying, accumulating student debt and working in a soul-crushing 9-5 job that’s actually 60 hours a week just to be MOGGED by a teenager in a dodge ram that’s worth more than your house

And that’s before you find out he banged your wife because you couldn’t figure out how to fix the roof leak

Yeah if that were me I’d be mad too

Can't relate. I graduated with more saved than I started with. For the most part, most engineers come from affluent families. Engineering runs in their bloodline. Most get scholarships or their parents can pay, easy. Unlike tradies, who are the byproduct of a few hogs plowing in a trailer park after polishing off a bottle of sailor jerry.

Imagine thinking using your body instead of your brain, as your main source of income, is a solid long-term plan. I've seen what happened to the tradies in my family. Bad back, double knee replacement, torn rotator cuff, etc.

[fate0311]

Can't relate. I graduated with more saved than I started with. For the most part, most engineers come from affluent families. Engineering runs in their bloodline. Most get scholarships or their parents can pay, easy. Unlike tradies, who are the byproduct of a few hogs plowing in a trailer park after polishing off a bottle of sailor jerry.

Imagine thinking using your body instead of your brain, as your main source of income, is a solid long-term plan. I've seen what happened to the tradies in my family. Bad back, double knee replacement, torn rotator cuff, etc.

i don't know you but i dont like your ****ing attitude, and that is coming from a guy with a BSME.

[wtfLandlord]

wow even the median salary is way above mine. im bout 35 years old BTW and only made 41k last year as a blue collar labourer

brutal life as a pleb!

[DeputyDong5]

i don't know you but i dont like your ****ing attitude, and that is coming from a guy with a BSME.

Calm down goober. Triggering the tradies. Wasp is having a meltdown in the tradie thread.

[MikeLowrrrey]

LOL at tradies.

Imagine thinking that being around unsophisticated, emotionally immature dudes who think that acting like they're in middle school is the way for a grown man to behave.

I'll stick to hanging out with educated, accomplished folks who have more goals in life than hitting up the 7-11 each morning for their monster, skoal, big bites, and scratchies and then going home and drinking themselves into oblivion each night.

Yes we need tradies. They just need to be carefully supervised and controlled so they stay in their tradie lane.

You like hanging around sophisticated people? The same people you have to walk on eggshells around? The same people with he/she/they in their email sig? The same people with the dumb morning team building jargon? The same people that have to leave the door open when the opposite sex is around?

You lol at monsters and cigs, meanwhile office people do coke and eventually become crackheads losing everything

All Office people don't act like adults. Maybe if it's a small family owned business. But large offices with hundreds of employees? Good luck dealing with all the SJW and LGBTQ warriors.

[BigDeeps01]

lol @ wagecels

[imbored21]

i dont know a single person making under 80k

[ohiostate124]

Pfffff....$64K.....more than that dribbles down my chin at the bar every weekend...

Didn’t realize jizz was worth that much

[DustinTheHuss]

> jobs within the tech, software, or coding industries were second with an average of $108,130

I have a real hard time believing this

I work in tech and make $150K but I’m like middle class here lol.

But I took the Mom career path so I could work 9-5 hourly instead of 60 hour weeks.

I’d be making well over $250K like my former colleagues at my consulting firm who are mostly high-level managers and executives.

I just want to be an individual contributor and not be in meetings all day like most managers.

[coast2coastam]

Just my personal life experiences

Virtually all small business owners are cheating their taxes by under reporting their income. Construction workers and tradies are often paid under the table and don't report all their income. And on the white collar side I cannot believe that the median tech coder job pays only 108k. New CS graduates were making more than that even before all the inflation a few years ago

I think these stats are complete bull

$108k sounds about right. I've worked as a programmer for a few years now, and I've seen what others make. Unless it's some senior architect guy, most make between $80k and $120k. The most I've seen a senior make was $190k. This is in the Midwest, people on the coasts make a little more, and if you're some star at google I'm sure you make more too.

Overall programming is flooded with Indians that drive down wages.

Idk what CS grads were making that straight out of school, maybe MIT graduates. Most University of Northern Southern Eastern Oklahoma grads aren't making $100k+ straight out of school.

[ScramFranklin]

lol @ tradies crew

lol harder @ tradie sympathizers

they aren't going to take you home and pork you... you aren't a hog with a cigarette cough and 3 kids from 3 men

I could be a tradie

they couldn't be engineers. Attempt to have an intellectual conversation with a tradie one day. their mental capacity peaks at, round peg go in round hole.

I supervise tradies and think many could be engineers. And many of them make much more than me, some 200-300k, I’ve heard several make 300-400k. I’m at about 150k total comp, not amazing, but top 8-9% for my age. Stemcel/engineer background

Our VP, this is a F500 company, started as a tradie at the company before he got his Electrical Engineering Degree

[DeputyDong5]

I supervise tradies and think many could be engineers. And many of them make much more than me, some 200-300k, I’ve heard several make 300-400k. I’m at about 150k total comp, not amazing, but top 8-9% for my age. Stemcel/engineer background

Our VP, this is a F500 company, started as a tradie at the company before he got his Electrical Engineering Degree

lol @ tradies crew

[ScramFranklin]

lol @ tradies crew

Sure, but most at my company are mogging

Some are dumb, but some are very smart and could have been stemcels

[ralphlaurenbrah]

Only nerdy computer science-cels have been brought back to reality. Their days of working from home doing 1 hr of work a day living off VC money thinking they're Gods are ****ING OVER and their tears are hilarious.

[DustinTheHuss]

Only nerdy computer science-cels have been brought back to reality. Their days of working from home doing 1 hr of work a day living off VC money thinking they're Gods are ****ING OVER and their tears are hilarious.

Even when I worked from home it wasn't 1 hour a day. Once I opened my laptop it was non stop Slack messages and emails. I didn't want to be away too long in the event that my manager or someone above him sends me a Slack message. The nature of my work is just nonstop work. I could work 24/7 if I wanted to.

Yet I'm grateful for my job in this economy, even though it's tough on my mental health. I do like the part that it's like a daily puzzle.

[SirFapsAIot]

LOL at tradies.

Imagine thinking that being around unsophisticated, emotionally immature dudes who think that acting like they're in middle school is the way for a grown man to behave.

I'll stick to hanging out with educated, accomplished folks who have more goals in life than hitting up the 7-11 each morning for their monster, skoal, big bites, and scratchies and then going home and drinking themselves into oblivion each night.

Yes we need tradies. They just need to be carefully supervised and controlled so they stay in their tradie lane.

the irony that an unhinged left wing extremist pee-dough enabler wrote this

[TheParish]

wow even the median salary is way above mine. im bout 35 years old BTW and only made 41k last year as a blue collar labourer

brutal life as a pleb!

Strong username to socioeconomic status ratio

[CosmicGate19]

These amounts have to include high school dropouts, mentally retarded folks, etc. Anyone who graduated from uni with a solid degree, literally has a zero percent chance of not making six figures coming out of school. That total only builds the older you. 60k for someone in their 30??.... Get tf outta here with that bs.



Srs, vry srs.

Anyone who graduated from university has a 0% chance of not making six figures out of college???

Tell that to teachers and social workers who have masters degrees making 50-70k