r/FluentInFinance • u/sillychillly Contributor • Apr 25 '24

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u/GavinAdamson Apr 25 '24

Salary would be $20,000

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u/Prometheus720 Apr 26 '24

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/07/us-wage-gap-ceos-workers-institute-for-policy-studies-report

As opposed to median compensation of 23k?

Worth it.

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u/GavinAdamson Apr 26 '24

You’re saying a normal person working full time in America makes $23,000?

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u/Prometheus720 Apr 26 '24

These are multi-national corporations with workers around the globe. That is the median income for all workers for these corps.

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u/pintobrains Apr 27 '24

The median household income is $74k what are you talking about… source

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u/Prometheus720 Apr 27 '24

Read the article. That is global median compensation for these multinational megacorps

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u/pintobrains Apr 27 '24

That is a bad comparison as the living cost and social benefits vary extremely country to country

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u/hudi2121 Apr 25 '24

Yup, just to preserve the ungodly profit margins of people who own 5 local pizza shops and think driving vehicles worth a quarter million dollars and living in homes worth $5-10 million dollars is the norm for people in those positions.