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.. to support your lifestyle?

Based on what you told us, you would need to make at least:
$9.00 per hour
$360.00 per week
to support your lifestyle


Teacher made us take this quiz to keep us busy, I guess..

I kinda like it.. I think. :eek:

Well, how much do you need to be making to support yourself?

Not like it's really accurate, though..

EDIT: errr... forgot the link!

http://www.jumpstart.org/madmoney/pgv_money_rc_main.html

Eh, by myself, eh about $1,000 a month really. :D

I need a lot more than I'm making right now. :p

*coughs*

Added the link. :p

*smacks self*

$1500 a month... Minimum.

this includes
Rent
Weekly Groceries
Utilities
upkeep.

EDIT: ---

Took the test...

I was close.

Based on what you told us, you would need to make at least:
$9.00 per hour
$360.00 per week
to support your lifestyle.

240 a week. Though I think it's figuring a much higher car payment than I actually make.

Ouch:
Based on what you told us, you would need to make at least:
$7.00 per hour
$280.00 per week
to support your lifestyle.

$15/hr or $600 per week. And that's why I'm going to college...

As I suspected, I could get by on minimum wage. It's a damn good thing, too, since I'm a starving grad student. :D

I think it figures my rent is a lot lower than it actually is. Apparently I can get by on $120 /week, which is definitely *not* true.

$11.00 per hour
$440.00 per week

Not bad, then again I am low maintenance. :D

Based on what you told us, you would need to make at least:
$10.00 per hour
$400.00 per week
to support your lifestyle.


Adjusted for living in New Jersey I think it hits some $16 per hour. We're an expensive state.

Based on what you told us, you would need to make at least:
$8.00 per hour
$320.00 per week
to support your lifestyle.

I could so pull off poor college student. Easy Mac and Ramen, wheee!

Fuck knows. Far too much in truth.

Only $8 / hour. I'm going to be sooo wealthy some day if I can live off of that.

It says $6/hour. $240/week.

That means I'm using 3 weeks' pay just to cover my rent. I don't think so. And that's assuming I pay no taxes.

Let's put it this way...

...I don't make enough. :(

wtf is "bottled water service" :confused: :confused:


i got: $12.00 per hour
$480.00 per week


i make approx $19 an hour and $475 a week at the moment... ish. that's my salaried wage, but i make more on top with other private projects, etc.

so the idea i've been entertaining of moving out of my parents' place isn't so crazy after all! ;)
except that i couldn't begin to afford the deposit on a mortgage in this country :-S (not yet - another couple of years of hard saving and i will :))

wtf is "bottled water service" :confused: :confused:

ever seen the water cooler? those bottles of water in a dispenser? the company that replentishes those bottled filtered water is a bottled water service.

some homes use that since the groundwater is contaminated and so they really cannot drink straight from the tap.

wtf is "bottled water service" :confused: :confused:


i got: $12.00 per hour
$480.00 per week


i make approx $19 an hour and $475 a week at the moment... ish. that's my salaried wage, but i make more on top with other private projects, etc.

so the idea i've been entertaining of moving out of my parents' place isn't so crazy after all! ;)
except that i couldn't begin to afford the deposit on a mortgage in this country :-S (not yet - another couple of years of hard saving and i will :))

If you don't like the way your tap water tastes, you pay a company to bring you water in bottles. Usually it's like a water cooler you see in offices.

Mine said $15.00, $600 a week, which is half what I bring home now. So why don't I have money in my pockets? Oh, right, that pesky mortgage. Ah well, it is a site designed for people somewhat younger than me.

As for you, PM, put Her Glitziness to work, for goodness' sake!

ever seen the water cooler? those bottles of water in a dispenser? the company that replentishes those bottled filtered water is a bottled water service.

some homes use that since the groundwater is contaminated and so they really cannot drink straight from the tap.

If you don't like the way your tap water tastes, you pay a company to bring you water in bottles. Usually it's like a water cooler you see in offices.
ok... i just think its weird to pay a company to bring it to you when you can buy bottled water at the store. fair enough if you can't drink it from the tap, but otherwise it sounds pretty silly/unnecessary to me...

As for you, PM, put Her Glitziness to work, for goodness' sake!

lol! i'll be a stay-at-home husband ;) :D :p

ok... i just think its weird to pay a company to bring it to you when you can buy bottled water at the store. fair enough if you can't drink it from the tap, but otherwise it sounds pretty silly/unnecessary to me...
I grant that it does seem strange but you have to taste some of the crud that comes out of the tap in some places. And it's not that the water's actually contaminated, though some may be, it tastes of chemicals like sulfur or chlorine.

lol! i'll be a stay-at-home husband ;) :D :p

:cool:

Mine said $15.00, $600 a week, which is half what I bring home now. So why don't I have money in my pockets? Oh, right, that pesky mortgage. Ah well, it is a site designed for peopl

mortgages are evil and land prices are outragous. the only real reasons why owning (and thus oweing your soul to the banks) is preferable to renting is because a) you're on the 'property ladder' and it counts as an asset, b) its better to pay of your own debt each month than pay an equivolent amount to some asshat landlord, c) its your own place and you can do what you like with it :) and d) you're the landlord and (in the UK at least) renting and being subservient to a landlord is a fucking shit place to be (landlords have waaaay too much legal power imho)

mortgages are evil and land prices are outragous. the only real reasons why owning (and thus oweing your soul to the banks) is preferable to renting is because a) you're on the 'property ladder' and it counts as an asset, b) its better to pay of your own debt each month than pay an equivolent amount to some asshat landlord, c) its your own place and you can do what you like with it :) and d) you're the landlord and (in the UK at least) renting and being subservient to a landlord is a fucking shit place to be (landlords have waaaay too much legal power imho)

Our bank is pretty unobtrusive, so we don't feel that we owe our souls to them. It's not as if they show up every September to collect part of our crops.

Having the asset is nice, and in the US we can deduct the interest part of mortgage payments from our income tax, which doesn't hurt. It's definitely better to pay off your own debt than to pay off your landlord's, and it's nice to be able to knock out a wall if we feel like it (my Lady is something to watch when she gets the sledge hammer swinging :p ).

Over here it depends on the terms of the lease, whether the landlord has more or less power, but remember, that lease is there to protect the landlord's property from you, not to protect you from the landlord. Our house had been one of those revolving-door houses, always four or five guys living there, you never knew who or how many, and the place was trashed. Of course, the landlord in that case had been the live-in owner, so it was his own fault. Took seven weeks, seven days a week to make the place liveable, which it very much is now.

...about tree fiddy...

I'm pretty sure that every week, I'll need $20 more than I make.

According to them, I need $480 a week, or about $960 every two weeks, which is roughly what I make...that is, after taxes. I assume they mean before taxes. In any case, I should be farther ahead...but I need to pay debts, prepare for this damn wedding in three weeks, and I don't think they quite understand how many pets I have.

According to the test, $8.00 per hour or $320.00 per week.
It's not far off, my important bills (ie. including broadband and food but excluding my car which probably costs £50-60 per month over a year) come to about £650 per month. I could live off minimum wage. Wouldn't have as much to spend, but meh; it only gets wasted on rubbish anyway, really.

And the survey's calculations assumes a 40-hour work-week. That's perhaps still true in actual hourly jobs but in the White Collar World, 40 hours is considered goofing off. I'm unofficially officially required to do 44 hours and I don't get paid by the hour, or paid overtime.

And the survey's calculations assumes a 40-hour work-week. That's perhaps still true in actual hourly jobs but in the White Collar World, 40 hours is considered goofing off. I'm unofficially officially required to do 44 hours and I don't get paid by the hour, or paid overtime.

Yeah, what is it with you yanks and long hours? I do 40/week including lunch-breaks, and generally consider that far too much time to waste at work.

Ummm I think this test is flawed. According to the results I would need to make $14 an hour to support my lifestyle. I make a lot more than that and I barely support my lifestyle.

They seem to suggest I need $320 per week. Whereas in reality I probably don't use twice that a month..
Worst reality check anyone offered me lately..

Based on what you told us, you would need to make at least:
$11.00 per hour
$440.00 per week

ha, thats about right.... i got 9.75 right now

it obviously does not take into account surprise expenses, and has no area for college education expenses, and stuff like that... not bad for high schoolers though, probably

Based on what you told us, you would need to make at least:
$17.00 per hour
$680.00 per week
to support your lifestyle.

Which is 2/hr less than I was making. But then I also refuse to work in my field for less than 20 now. No sense in working below industry average.

$5.15 to $9.46 Minimum Wage
$9.47 to $12.49 Less than a High School Diploma
$12.50 to $14.60 High School Graduate
$14.61 to $15.23 Some college, no degree
$15.24 to $19.27 Associate Degree
$19.28 to $24.03 Bachelor's Degree
$24.04 to $29.99 Master's Degree
$30.00 to $34.94 Doctoral Degree
$34.95 and above Professional Degree

Going by that chart, and for what I should be expected to bring in, I should have a Professional degree.

Based on what you told us, you would need to make at least:
$13.00 per hour
$520.00 per week
to support your lifestyle.

except we would all be smushed like sardines in a 1 bedroom apartment.

And the survey's calculations assumes a 40-hour work-week. That's perhaps still true in actual hourly jobs but in the White Collar World, 40 hours is considered goofing off. I'm unofficially officially required to do 44 hours and I don't get paid by the hour, or paid overtime.
Whereas I have a job that's ostensibly full time, but I'm only even in the office for about 30 hours/week, and I spend a lot of that time here.

Rent and the rest included, I ususaly need about 1200/mo, maybe a bit more with gas.

Which, as it were, is pretty close to what that website predicted - 440/wk.

Ummm I think this test is flawed. According to the results I would need to make $14 an hour to support my lifestyle. I make a lot more than that and I barely support my lifestyle.

Well, I found out that it really doesn't matter how much money you make. For example, I have a 40 hr/wk job with over time sometimes, not to often. I used to have tons of side jobs too. I thought, man am I going to have all kinds of money.......Wrong.

Moral of the story:
The more money you make, the more expenses you have. Murphy's Law. :D

Well, I found out that it really doesn't matter how much money you make. For example, I have a 40 hr/wk job with over time sometimes, not to often. I used to have tons of side jobs too. I thought, man am I going to have all kinds of money.......Wrong.

Moral of the story:
The more money you make, the more expenses you have. Murphy's Law. :D

To add to the story, I ended of quitting most of my side jobs. I got tired of working 7 days/wk and 12-15hrs/day.

I make a descent wage. Another problem I have is that I like to live richer than I am. I'm barely middle-class. Glad I'm single. :D

far too simplistic- it said I need to make $9.00 an hour. I make three and a half times that, my wife makes more than that too.

we are saving, but not rolling in cash.

And no master's degree for me.

$14 / hour or $560 per week...not bad, since I'm planning to go to college. I was actually expecting it to add up to a lot more.

^^^ Does it calculate in taxes? If not, that might explain any inaccuracy

How much do you need? .. to support your lifestyle?
The sky's the limit.

about $500 a week.

far too simplistic- it said I need to make $9.00 an hour. I make three and a half times that, my wife makes more than that too.
I wonder if it is accounting for taxes anywhere in its calculations.

Whatever.
At first, it said I should be making $440 a week, but I decided that being a telephone operator wasn't for me. So I eliminated all options related to laundry/cleaning/personal hygeine, and that got me my dream job as the world's worst-smelling Dental Assistant.
W00T!

According to the quiz, four dollars an hour. I could so be a bum.

It tells me:
$11.00 per hour
$440.00 per week

Between work and veteran's educational benefits I net about $12.25/hr. That's counting both my 24 hours of work and 12 hours of school a week since my veteran's benefits are for being in school.

$5.15 to $9.46 Minimum Wage
$9.47 to $12.49 Less than a High School Diploma
$12.50 to $14.60 High School Graduate
$14.61 to $15.23 Some college, no degree
$15.24 to $19.27 Associate Degree
$19.28 to $24.03 Bachelor's Degree
$24.04 to $29.99 Master's Degree
$30.00 to $34.94 Doctoral Degree
$34.95 and above Professional Degree
$∞ Your Lord and Master

Based on what you told us, you would need to make at least:
$17.00 per hour
$680.00 per week
to support your lifestyle.

I already figured a while ago I'll need to make $6,250 per week to support the lifestyle I want. This is obviously a flawed test. :p

According to the quiz, four dollars an hour. I could so be a bum.
In my hometown the average panhandler earns $8/hour.

So yes, you could.

Based on what you told us, you would need to make at least:
$7.00 per hour
$280.00 per week
to support your lifestyle


this doesn't take into account how much i drink or that i like to eat better than i can usually afford.

$7/hour or $280/week.

I figured I need about £6.50/hour (£260/week) in the UK to live - and $7 is about £4. Although the cost of living is considerably higher here.

Based on what you told us, you would need to make at least:
$17.00 per hour
$680.00 per week
to support your lifestyle.

I already figured a while ago I'll need to make $6,250 per week to support the lifestyle I want. This is obviously a flawed test. :p
:p


For me:

Based on what you told us, you would need to make at least:
$14.00 per hour
$560.00 per week
to support your lifestyle.

That's pretty much. Huh. I felt all frugal answering the question. No idea what pushed me over into rich people territory.

But here are the jobs I could do for that life of luxury:

Meter reader with a salary of about $14.15 a hour.
Printing press operator with a salary of about $14.17 a hour.
Firefighting with a salary of about $14.26 a hour.

Meter reader school, here I come! :p

$13.00 per hour
$520.00 per week

Meh. I don't buy it.

$11.00 per hour

$440 per week

If I have a roomie in my apartment, it drops to like $9.00 per hour and $350 a week. Somehow this doesn't seem right...

The maximum that you could need per hour based on the choices given on the site is $24 an hour.

The test says:
Based on what you told us, you would need to make at least:
$9.00 per hour
$360.00 per week

I actually live on my own with less than $360 a month.

The answer is: I don't live in the US.

Minimum wage apparently gets me by (about $7).

$∞ Your Lord and Master
Is that $∞ per hour or $∞ per week?

According to that calculator, I need about $1000 per month less than I actually earn. Why am I not saving my extra cash? :confused:

I actually calculated very unscientificly what I needed to 'get by' when I graduated college, and that was $10 an hour, because when I was living full tilt slacker I was making around $8 an hour and suplimenting my income and that kept me in smokables and cable and I was eating out all the time (albiet at shit hole food places.) BUT-if anything happened I'd be screwed. Which happened. So I cook more often because in the college town the food was too far away and too expensive. So if I found comprible rent and ate at home and cooled it a bit on the smokables, $10/hour seemed about right. To squeak by.

Unfortunately, I started freelancing so who knows how much I'll make at any given time. I need a sugar momma. Unfortunately I just ain't that pretty. I'm a failure as a slacker because I don't have that "I lived with a crazy stripper" story...

The quiz said $9/hour. But I live in California. It also said I should be making @$20/hour. I've made some bad decisions, it seems...