Companies are complaining about employees wanting to earn more money for their work, but am I missing something with the below?
Supposedly the median individual income is around $36,000 a year. Since this is the median and therefor should fall in the middle, I'm assuming it's mostly adults that make this money. Jobs for teenagers and “entry level” jobs would fall bellow the median income correct?
I assumed a low income tax percentage of 10% assuming you'd get some sort of refund at the end of the year. With that I figure a single person would make about $2,700 a month. Below is a budget for 2 adults and 2 kids.
At a certain point I just gave up on the numbers in each bucket because there's no way to make this work and live a real normal fucking life. No money for savings, no going out to eat AT ALL, no streaming services for fucking TV, etc.
Yes the cell phone budget is high because I'm accounting for the possibility that these are teenagers and want cell phones since that's practically a requirement now. Some people may also consider the grocery budget high, but try feeding a family of 4 healthy food for even that amount. The budget does account for 2 cheap ass car payments, please try to tell me that a family living off of the MEDIAN income shouldn't have 2 Kia's. Good luck finding a 3 bedroom house for rent for the $2,000 I put on here unless you live in bum fuck nowhere, in which case you're probably making less money.
People should be able to have on the lower end of all of these things listed for the MEDIAN INCOMEKJAWS:OLFIDJSPDOGFIJ!!! NOTHING ON HERE IS A LUXERY!!! Oh yeah that Netflix or amazon prime membership sure is a luxury only the rich should be able to afford. God forbit you feed your kids some healthy food, or go out to eat once a month, get the oil changed in their car, repair their car, go camping a couple times a year, etc.
This budget doesn't even allow for birthdays, Christmas, Chanukah, or any other holidays this family may celebrate.
Please tell me I did something wrong here.
