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Glassdoor said I was making up my salary, because it was too low when I reviewed my employer
by /u/Jewsusgr8 | 117 comments | 2026-06-15T12:20:41+00:00 Central
Post
I always knew my salary was well below most
companies paying for the same role. But I'm fully
remote so I haven't complained too much, and it's
more than I've ever made.
But as I'm looking to leave ( C-level execs got
replaced and now we are a sweatshop) I went to
review the current state of my employer, and
Glassdoor just decided to slap me in the face with a
"nuh-uh, you can't be making that low of a salary,
don't lie to us."
So it's good to know that Glassdoor doesn't have
accurate salaries, only market based competitive
salaries.
EDIT: I contacted their help center, and sent them a
year end compensation report. Unlike my w2 it
doesn't have PII attached, but only has my first,
last name, and company signature. I don't know how
they can rebuke that.
Comments
| /u/Wraeclast66 That entire website is garbage. Everytime i try to use it, it locks me out unless i write an employee review. Which ive already done. I havent changed jobs how tf do you want me to keep writing these new reviews lol |
| /u/AmazingSully Glassdoor's ethics aside, this is the thing that just makes the site unusable. |
| /u/StilandGurney I just always write a fake review for self-employed. But the websites got good at stopping you from doing that too easily. |
| /u/Prime_Director I've gotten around that be leaving a negative review of my role as a review writer for Glassdoor |
| /u/UltravioletClearance I just write reviews for minimum wage jobs at major companies. Why yes, I worked at McDonalds part time making $14/hr! |
| /u/JerryfromCan I used to write reviews of Glassdoor and how they weren't paying me enough to write reviews of other companies. They eventually stopped me from doing it. But the first person in this thread is right. I have had like 7 employers. I have reviewed them all. What more do you want from me??? My review of the McDonald's I worked for in HS 30 years ago isnt going to help anyone. |
| /u/Nodan_Turtle Is there a good alternative site to Glassdoor? Is Blind still good? |
| /u/StilandGurney Blind is good, but it's really hyper focused on high earning tech salaries. Once you get out of the fortune 500 and top Tech unicorns, it gets way less useful. |
| /u/From_Deep_Space ditto this but for the entire economy |
| /u/StilandGurney Yes, everyone else starts to feel like a second class citizen in the economy. I actually had a ton of trouble even accessing Blind to begin with. Because I didn't have a fortune 500 or Tech unicorn email, my pitifully small startup email wouldn't let me access the website and advanced data and commenting is gated. At a much smaller company, it's much more risky to leave a review, especially as the first person, because your coworkers or bosses might be able to figure out that it's you. I found this comically unfair as I wanted to break into a much larger tech company, but couldn't even access the website that would give me more information on the industry. |
| /u/crseat It's literally the only way they could get people to write reviews |
| /u/Waiting4Reccession They deleted my real review for being too negative but nothing i said was a lie. They dont want real reviews. And that was years ago let alone now |
| /u/69420isntfunny When I was a student, it wouldn't let me use the site without logging in and after that wouldn't let me use if I don't write my employer review. So I had to literally write fake review of some random ass company to actually use the site |
| /u/Klightgrove You can also give a benefits rating or job interview for any company. Its easy just pick a large company and write a generic "had a good interview experience" |
| /u/Ok_Delay_911 Which ruins the quality and trustworthiness of the site for people who are looking for jobs and want info on the company they just applied to. You're just lying to other workers and glazing some company that probably doesn't deserve it. Glassdoor is completely useless for workers and has been for a long time. |
| /u/Head-Confusion3480 Glassdoor is one of those solutions looking for a problem at this point. Reviews anywhere as far as I can tell are worthless since the noise to usefulness ratio is skewed by people that deserved to get fired, grossly exaggerated, or purchased wholesale. |
| /u/csm1313 Yeah it just thinks I have had like every entry level job possible at like CVS or something cause I just feed it crap to let me look at the crap data it has for other companies |
| /u/Mother_Passenger8589 https://preview.redd.it/22l4k5sswf7h1.jpeg?width=552&for mat=pjpg&auto=webp&s=117c5e90aa1c6b916038a7676fa31773c6b 2146b |
| /u/Tater-Tot-Casserole A similar thing happened to me at work, my boss was joking that she couldn't survive on 60k a year. I get paid 40k. |
| /u/hammertime2009 I get that lifestyle creep is real but it's honestly incredible how tone deaf even low level managers can be. They have way more in common with you than many would like to believe. |
| /u/RebootDarkwingDuck My last manager was always bemoaning how he'd never be able to retire. I was making six figures so I knew he was doing just fine. Except one of us had a new 3,000 sf house in a ritzy neighborhood and a spouse that didn't work (both of his kids were grown) and the other had a 2,300 sf house and a spouse working full time. |
| /u/OwlSoggy8627 I had the opposite situation once. An employee two levels below me in the reporting chain was complaining that I didn't live the lifestyle that he would be living if he had my job. Why don't I upgrade my car very often? I buy a car and then drive it until maintenance gets too expensive. Why don't I live in a nicer house? I live in the house I've lived in and have been building equity in. Why don't I buy a luxury watch? I do like watches but it's more of an admiration from afar. I said to him that he probably had more discretionary money than I did at the time. I had alimony and child support. I had a house that had expenses. He was a single dude who lived at home with his parents. I think a lot of people think lifestyle creep is just about buying nice things. But it also happens when your kid decides they want to take up an instrument or a sport. But it's all good. We all make our choices. I will never complain that my daughter got what she needed and that the mother of my daughter had a soft landing so that she could go back to school and launch a second career. Anyone can make choices in life. I feel like the part people struggle with is living with them. |
| /u/RebootDarkwingDuck I think the grass is always just going to look a little greener, no matter what you do. I have a buddy that threw every penny into retirement, spends almost nothing. I'm jealous that he'll be done working by 55. Then I'm also jealous of the people I see balling out, buying cabins up north, taking big trips, living in big houses with a new truck in the driveway. If I was in either pair of shoes I'd be jealous or stressed out about something else, I'm sure. In truth, we're fine. We're secure enough, comfortable enough and our kids won't starve. |
| /u/NaughtAught Imagine having money to put toward retirement or nice things... ahh.... Anyway, I wonder if I'll have a job when I collapse in my local gutter and finally stop moving. |
| /u/DontAskAboutMyButt Sorry, the only available compensation package for checks notes human drain guard is an unpaid internship. How many years of experience do you have blocking the flow of water with your lifeless body? We're looking for at least 8 |
| /u/Danimals847 My brother-in-law (~38) apparently wants to retire by 50 so he invests a huge amount of his income. Seems smart, right? Except for the fact that he's making his wife (my wife's sister) do shit like Doordash in dangerous neighborhoods for extra spending money. |
| /u/blolfighter Complaining that someone else is living too frugally is new to me. |
| /u/HuckleberryTiny5 Not to me. People can be absolutely spiteful if you are good with money and live frugally. The envy is real. Like it would be something that is somehow out of their reach and you have some hidden talent to make your money last that is not available to them. I don't get it, but I've encountered it. |
| /u/series-hybrid I live well below my wage. When my wife and I were forced to move because of the 2008 economy, I got a job offer in the middle of Kansas. Most financial advice says to buy the biggest house you can afford because they appreciate in value faster, also...make a small down payment and invest any excess money. I know home values fluctuate, but we rolled-over every cent we had into the new place in Kansas, and since I knew my wife would want to pick where we live when I retired in a few years, I pushed to get the absolute cheapest house we could find near my work, which turned out to be half of a duplex, with the other half being rented. Our house payment was less than a car payment. When my career rebounded, we had excess funds each month. I paid off my wife's car early and we kept them instead of taking on new car loans. I spent weekends fixing up the place, learning from youtube. When it got to be time to retire, we shopped for a house in a nearby town that had low crime and cheaper house prices (not near the jobs at industrial cities). We took a few dollars out of our retirement for the down payment and bought the house my wife chose. I considered renting out the old place, but my wife was leery of all the work it would entail. We bought the new place, and put the old place up for sale. It sold quickly and I had two months in which to fix up the new place. I painted the master bedroom first, and then remodeled the kitchen, since those tasks would be difficult when we would be living there. Our neighbor was shocked we could buy one place before selling the old place. WE said "look at my truck, its twenty years old and has a 4-cylinder", because they had new V8's with big payments and big insurance bills. I'm not saying "look at me, look how smart I am" I'm just advocating for living frugally while trying to get ahead. |
| /u/Altruistic_Brick1730 I've never heard any financial advice saying buy the biggest house you can afford. Like, the exact opposite, actually. |
| /u/endlesscartwheels Buying the most expensive house possible is the best choice in Hasbro's "Game of Life". |
| /u/Scouter197 Summer camps man. $500-$700 depending on the camp (sleep away) or pushing $300 for a day camp for a week. Outside of school sports are gonna cost money. It adds up fast. |
| /u/TheDonutPug People often fall into this "living at your means" trap when they start making money like that. People have this illusion that you must live at your means, even when it ends up being a really stupid financial decision. They never think about the fact that you are allowed to live below your means. If some middle manager is making 100k per year and theyre comfortable, if they got a raise to 110k per year, the correct decision is NOT "oh boy, let me find a way to spend another 10k per year!" It's "oh boy I get to put another 10k in savings / investing each year!" If you're already comfortable, there's no world in which spending extra money just because you have it is a smart financial decision. |
| /u/brokeonomics They usually don't realize they're low level either, in my experience. |
| /u/Asyncrosaurus It's always amazing to hear people with 6 figure salaries complain about not making enough. Everyone lives paycheck to paycheck when you aren't conscious of your spending. |
| /u/elegantideas the "living paycheck to paycheck" thing gets me bc like yeah, anyone can find a way to spend their entire paycheck |
| /u/MoreGlitterPlease1 It's easy to understand in some cases. For example, you'll spend about 20k in one year sending a toddler and an infant to daycare in Cleveland. Yes - Cleveland, Ohio. Now let's take a couple living in Boston. There, for an infant and toddler, you will spend SIXTY THOUSAND FUCKING DOLLARS on DAYCARE in one year. |
| /u/Wolfwoode People at work were complaining about the cost of living and my boss said, "Well, I'm homeless!" He said that because he doesn't own his own house but lives in a detached part of his father's mini-mansion. So he's living in a mini-mansion for free, his father is rich and letting him manage one of his businesses, and when his father passes he's going to inherit the businesses (and who knows how much money/other shit). He was trying to be relatable but really just showed how out of touch he is. I mean, the guy is basically set for life and was trying to get poverty sympathy from his broke employees. Edit: He will also tell us how he's broke one day and the next he'll be showing me pictures of his 5th new flying "V" guitar he got. |
| /u/electricheat reminds me of the supposed trump quote One day in 1990, as Donald Trump tells it, he and model Marla Maples were strolling along New York's Fifth Avenue when they passed a beggar. "You see that man? Right now he's worth $900 million more than me. ... Right now I'm worth minus $900 million," Trump told Maples. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1992/11 /29/trump-went-broke-but-stayed-on-top/ |
| /u/MoreStable2339 No no lifestyle creep is VERY REAL. It fucked me really bad. My industry changed in a very very bad way. My income tanked by more than half. I am drowning right now. It's horrible. Meanwhile someone else who just started to make my exact income NOW would be more than comfortable. |
| /u/Uhmerikan Are you stuck under a bunch of loans or something? |
| /u/MoreStable2339 Property tax at 14k, income tax hit, then regular bills that were all setup during my higher income so yeah basically. |
| /u/g00fyg00ber741 They hire tone deaf people in these positions on purpose. It's part of the structure of hierarchy. |
| /u/g00fyg00ber741 They want them to be tone deaf so they hinder the people below them from feeling like they can have a manager who understands and makes things better for them. They want management that can be harsh and that thinks they're just one promotion away from joining the higher ups, and they intentionally use these personality types to squash employees below them that are more likely to be union organizers, whistleblowers, filing complaints within the company or outside the company, etc. If you keep people below store management feeling defeated, rotating out from high turnover due to shitty job conditions and management, they can't band together and organize for better working conditions, they can't even form community with each other and often can be turned against each other and used against each other. Having a shitty person who is ego-tripping as manager ensures that the typical workplace culture perseveres. They prioritize intimidation tactics. That type of management is basically like an officer of capitalism, and their job is to police everyone below them on how well they are contributing to that capitalistic output. And capitalism cannot exist without the innate hierarchy it promotes and enables. These managers are supposed to feel like complete roadblocks for employees to feel hopeless and defeated about positive change in terms of worker rights, the environment, etc. This type of manager is also usually too up their own ass to be able to understand what part they are playing, too. And they rarely have a conscience that prevents them from being as awful as can be and taking advantage of everyone below them. |
| /u/Asyncrosaurus Humans have been building hierarchical systems out of the working class for thousands of years. Explicitly, to pit each group against the other, to avoid everyone looking around and realizing the ones at the top are always the problem. |
| /u/Linked713 I learned about lifestyle creep 2 year ago when I was barely scrapping by when I lost my job, draining my savings to 0 for a year and a half of job search. I have learned so much about my needs and wants. Gigabit internet? Completely unnecessary. 10gb phone data? I barely use 1-2 off WiFi, the "safety net" was never necessary. Etc etc etc. I got a new job and I was godsmacked at how much I was able to save and how living my same life when jobless permitted me to see how stupid I was with my available balance, get debt free and not even sacrifice anything. In that year, I made enough to move to Europe next month under an opportunity card visa. Lifestyle ceep is real and if you do not budget religiously, there's a 100% chance you are victim of that creep whether you want to admit it or not. That's Was off topic a bit, but just wanted to say that about lifestyle creep. |
| /u/FeelTheH8 Unlimited phone plan costs $20 and GB wifi costs $50 divided by 3 people. But yes, a lot of people will have $100+ phone plans (with a "free" phone) and $200+ internet/cable plans so point taken. |
| /u/dplans455 My first job out of college I was working as a servicing specialist for a loan servicer. I was making about $40k a year. The department director made about $120k a year. Her husband was a surgeon and he made good money. Someone totaled my car and I was shopping to buy a new one. My smashed car was a 10 year old Honda Civic. I was casually talking to her one morning after she went over something work related. She asked me if I had decided on a new car. I told her I was probably going to buy another Civic. She told me she loved her Lexus and it was such a great car. I'm thinking, "ok, lady, I can't afford that." Then as if she had no concept of money or how much things cost she said to me, "you should go buy a Lexus, it's way better than a Civic." This lady was a good boss and she seemed like a nice person but she was out of touch entirely. I straight looked her in the face and said, "you're buying? Let's go to the dealer now." She just chuckled and walked away. But I hope maybe she thought about it later on and realized she was paying me $40k, I was single at the time, and couldn't afford a $50k car on a $40k salary. I don't understand how people lose touch with reality. Surely this person wasn't always upper middle class. This story is 20 years old and at this point in my life I've done well and have a Porsche and two BMWs. But I can't ever see myself say to one of my fresh faced college hires to go buy a luxury car on their entry-level salary. |
| /u/coppersly7 Managers are another breed of people. I am a firm believer good people don't become managers/supervisors, or at least good people don't stay them because the empathy they have would override the cruelty they're expected to maintain. |
| /u/Zeverian You have to fight to maintain both your compassion and your position. Eventually one of those slips. |
| /u/callin-br My mom worked for a doctor who once bitched about how little her son made per hour working at a grocery store. My mom asked her if if she realized she paid her office staff less than that and she stuttered all over herself. |
| /u/ProletarianLilith "That's different because my son is part of the elite" -actual thought process |
| /u/ledow My ex- was a barrister (legal counsel, etc.) and when she was in law school training to do that, they were given real cases which they then had to prosecute/defend based on the evidence in front of them (which is what the lawyers in the real case had at that point). So they were all standing up, in a faux court environment, with a real case to defend. Every now and then the lawyer teaching them would pause and they'd discuss particular arguments, legal cases, etc. as they did so. And at one point the woman student who was "prosecuting" said that it was clear that the guy in the case MUST be lying because the papers showed that he only earned £20k a year (~$26k)*** and there's "no way anyone can survive on that salary", so he must have other illicit income from somewhere. *** In today's money, that £20k would be £37k, which is about $50k. It's pretty much the national average wage, or thereabouts. She argued vehemently that that was the case, the audience of other students all agreed, and nobody pulled her up on it. The teacher was quite quiet and let them argue it out. It was at that point that my ex- (who was defending) had had enough, stood up, announced that she earned less than that, was renting a house, paying her bills, AND was putting herself through law school with it. The teacher stopped the lesson and said something along the lines of "Congratulations, prosecution, you just lost your case, accused someone of fraud, and made a fool of yourselves in court". Yes. There are many highly-educated people in this world that think that, below the average wage, it's so impossible to exist that they believe you are more likely to be a criminal for claiming you only earn that much. To the point that they think they could use it in a court of law against you. Let's just say that some re-education took place after that. |
| /u/Commentor9001 Classism is a bitch like that. |
| /u/Brilliant_Chest5630 I quite my job bc my manager kept complaining that $80k is just not livable. He said he'd cut all possible corners. I swear, it's like you lose braincells or something. The nerve to call those under you lazy while you work less hours than them, and suggest budgeting when there's nothing to budget. I hope I never have to go back. I actually like my current job. |
| /u/Latter-Bicycle1793 I quit my second job way back when because I asked for a promotion, I outlined all the things they had me doing and how those were all in the next tier for my employment and wanted to be paid the same as others around me. He asked me, "What would you even do with more money?" As a reason I didn't need the raise. I replied actually pay my bills. Then realized I needed to quit and was not going to get anywhere at that place. |
| /u/stevedropnroll I had a manager argue once that I didn't need to get paid more because I was smart and responsible with my money, and I owned a house in my 20s while the other people in my department weren't as good with money. Looked me in the eye and told me that 100% sincerely. Like, dude... I've made a lot of sacrifices and maintained a very low cost of living to afford this tiny house, and I've been very lucky to be in the position to do that, but I would like to get paid based on my work, not based on you thinking your buddy "needs it more" than I do. |
| /u/liquidsyphon Was getting paid $11 an hour at this job and the houses surrounding the area average around 500k - 1M+... manager says "you should just get a house closer to the office". |
| /u/KMMDOEDOW I work at a law firm -- one of my bosses was in consideration for a judgeship but turned down the opportunity because "they don't even make much money" ($145k/year, you won't be surprised to hear I was making less than half that at the time) |
| /u/BDO-Issue-Again But judges get great perks like motorhomes from conservative billionaires, according to Uncle Thomas it's even tax free. |
| /u/DrMeowsburg My brother is a lawyer, and a friend of a friend of mine is about to start law school and he was saying something about how much money he'll make in the future and I was just thinking damn, how do I tell him👀. My brother often says he wished he'd been a doctor instead. |
| /u/Bring_cookies I was just in a completely different sub where someone said about their doctor "they only get paid what insurance will pay them, if they wanted to make a lot of money they'd have been a lawyer." Also 👀. Someone is missing something. |
| /u/just_having_giggles Med school debt + insurance = you'll start making money when you're 50, too |
| /u/KMMDOEDOW The line around here is "you'll start making money when your name is on the door" 6 years in, I'm making what I thought I'd be making out of law school |
| /u/RogerPenroseSmiles I mean, are you a fully billing Associate Lawyer or Partner? Government service is normally a downgrade in salary for almost everyone. You could be a corporate secretary, and becoming a secretary in a govt office will be a pay downgrade. |
| /u/DrMeowsburg I remember when a guy that worked with our company was saying "60k a year is shit, you can't live on that, it's embarrassing". The guys I happened to be standing with made like 45-55k lmaooo |
| /u/corvettee01 When I was making 40k I was talking to my boss and he was absolutely flabbergasted that I couldn't afford a house in a city where the average house price was over 500k. He literally couldn't comprehend the fact a house was totally unaffordable to his workers. |
| /u/FadedVictor I make around $24k a year before taxes. I make too much to qualify for SNAP. Pain. Before the obvious questions arise, yes I work full-time(40hrs/week). No I will not work at McDonalds. |
| /u/Big_P4U Wtf do you do for work and where do you work that you're working full time (40hrs is considered OT in some parts), and yet making objectively below poverty income? |
| /u/FadedVictor I'm a janitor contracted to work for a public university in Texas. |
| /u/guccioli A lot of people don't know how shit wages can be in the south. But that sounds really bad even for the area |
| /u/FadedVictor It absolutely is. I sometimes daydream about this company getting exposed on social media and being boycotted into better wages, but I know that shit definitely isn't going to happen. I've tried to talk to people about unionizing, but a lot of them are old cats that think unions are bad. The rest just parrot the same thing, "Well they'll just fire us and hire someone else." I always respond with, who are they going to hire for our wages? We struggle just keeping our current staff from leaving. |
| /u/JiveTurkeyII Ive been in IT most of my adult life. Between job once I took a janitorial position If Janitorial paid an actual living wage I'd go back to doing it. At least in the area I was in. They lined me out and left me alone. I had the keys to the best places on the college campus. I found hiding places people probably hadn't used since the 80's in some parts of my building. I found all the shortcuts to be done early every day - And I knew where the Professes hid the booze. Best job I ever had. Couldn't live on it. |
| /u/FadedVictor That's pretty much why I'm still here. Pay is bad but lots of freedom. It reminds me of working security but without the mind numbing boredom. |
| /u/Important_Trouble_11 Where is 40 considered ot? |
| /u/snuffy_smith_ At jobs that want to keep you ineligible for benefits like insurance, full time in my state =36 hours OT pay rate starts at the 41st hour. But managers of places like fast food are starting to refer to in house policies of work load management as "over time" when it causes an employee to go over 36 hours. Source: many confusing conversations with my son who is working his first job and is in fast food. |
| /u/dantekratos In Belgium a fulltime workweek is 38 hours But in practice many people have 40 hour workweek. This allows us to get 12 days off in a year because of those 2 hours extra worked in a week. Many people refuse jobs that don't offer those 12 days. |
| /u/Illustrious_Cry1028 Years ago I had a boss complain that his bonus structure was being changed, and it'd mean about $50k a year later. I pointed out that's what I made at the time. Never looked at him the same. |
| /u/Garrettstark64 Meanwhile, Mike Johnson claimed earlier this month that Congress could not survive on over 200K per year. Most Americans barely get paid 25K. Where does this mindset come from? And who put this little "moderation" thing into Glassdoor? |
| /u/Mr_Diesel13 Ha. The transportation director at my county school bus garage was overheard in the office whining about not being able to survive on $120k a year. The median household income for my county is less than $40k. |
| /u/GravitationalEddie My boss- What did you do over the weekend? Me- Saved money by not doing anything. |
| /u/dosoest Same! We often get grants at work to develop small projects. My boss was wondering why I was getting so worked up because of a grant that didn't even cover 1 month's salary. That was more than 3x my net salary. |
| /u/Mogura-De-Gifdu My mom just before retiring, half crying, asked me "will I be able to survive on 2k a month??". I wasn't even making that much, and contrary to her I still have to pay for a home. |
| /u/OwlSoggy8627 Funny thing was I had this conversation with my dad once. He insisted that those scratchers for the life prize were never enough. I was playing the $1,000/week for life one. And he scoffed and said "There's no way I could just retire on $52,000." I did the man's taxes. I was like "Dad, you never made more than $38,000 and you're living on it?" Apparently what people mean when they say you can't live on winnings like that is you can't enjoy the lottery winner lifestyle which, in my father's case, would probably be all of the cocaine and sex workers. |
| /u/ImPapaNoff If it's not inflation adjusted over time then $52k/year (pretax) would be near unlivable in 50 years. |
| /u/FUTURE10S Usually those "X per week for life" payouts are only for 20 years, unless you're like Quebecois or some shit like that, so you definitely wouldn't be able to live on $520K/year in 50 years' time |
| /u/StalkMeNowCrazyLady After taxes with no other income and just federal taxes that's $76K a year. Place like NYC its ~$63K a year. That's comfortable zone for a lot of areas, but even in those I could see it not stretching as much as you'd think if someone is unemployed and free all day. There's trillions of dollars spent each year to combat boredom. |
| /u/bluewolfhudson I could easily live a happy life on that much. |
| /u/ObsidianMarble Well, it sets your floor and gives a safety net. If you want to be a part time dog walker or sell stuff at a craft show or try your hand at music or get really into microbrewery or any number of low paying jobs, you can and will still take home 65-75k per year. That would be quite liberating for a lot of people. |
| /u/hamakabi if someone is unemployed and free all day people underestimate how long 40 hours is, for sure. I know a lot of people that enjoy a week long vacation but would be bored to death without a job taking up a lot of their time. Especially since all your friends have jobs and can't chill at noon on a Tuesday. |
| /u/mikehiler2 I very much doubt she said that, but even depending on where you live, at least in the US, 100k a year you can live quite comfortably most anywhere outside of a few major cities. |
| /u/NewestAccount2023 It's quite common for people making up to $250k/yr to be "broke" and complain about money. They are literally in debt, sure they make $10k a month but they spend $10.5k every month. When they were making $5k they spent $5.5k every single month. If they start making $15k they'll spend $16k every single month, they are ALWAYS behind. Tens of housands of these people exist, odds are you talk to at least one at work every day you just never bring up money. |
| /u/Laurier-Henri Maybe it's like that for a lot of people . But I think living standards also vary greatly If you don't have family nearby and can't afford to take a few years off work to raise your children, you have to pay for a decent daycare. You have to get health insurance, you have to have a house that's comfortable and a good amenities, etc. 200k/year is good money for sure. But usually people making this amount also have another threshold in terms of living standards |
| /u/AdagioDesperate 100k p/yr anywhere in the Midwest means you can live more than comfortably. Rn my wife makes just under 60k p/yr and we live comfortably. An extra 40k a year would do us wonders. |
| /u/socialcommentary2000 If you are single and if you are willing to hunt for good apartment deals, you can actually live in those major cities on that salary...well, I might add. You just gotta put in a bunch of leg work. |
| /u/Confident_Purple_40 people claiming they can't "live" on 100k when households make less than that in some HCOL areas. |
| /u/socialcommentary2000 Literally half of the households in the NYC MSA make $70K or less. So yeah, people get by. |
| /u/CammyMacJr "Get by" generally means taking on debt and having no savings though, which is generally not a very smart way to live if it can be avoided. That's obviously much easier said than done |
| /u/opbmedia The part missing is can't live "like how they are living now" meaning lifestyle has to change. No one wants to go backwards. |
| /u/Key_Fee158 "I very much doubt she said that" huh? You don't know her boss - why would you doubt she said that when you don't know these ppl lol what is wrong with you. |
| /u/ProletarianLilith Why do you doubt this extremely common story |
| /u/Woodcrate69420 100k USD/Year can buy you a decent life anywhere on the planet and lets you live like a king in many places. |
| /u/wibblywobbly420 And most places outside the US don't charge taxes on the lotto winnings. In Canada it would be the full $100k per year tax free. |
| /u/RestaurantSilly6598 I swear employers report fake salaries or people lie about their salaries to feel better about themselves. The last time I looked at glass door it said I was underpaid by like $6 an hour.... I was a unionized employee with a capped out salary and everyone's salary was publicly posted in the work shop to make sure no one was being paid unfairly. |
| /u/KMMDOEDOW Yeah my base salary is legitimately like 30% lower than every job site says I should be making. |
| /u/HeavilyBearded The average salary for an Assistant Teaching PRofessor [sic] is $92,393 per year (estimate) in US, which is 47% higher than the average [your university] salary of $62,819 per year (estimate) for this job. I just checked for the exact sum and I make 45,756.00-up from last year's 43,236.00. |
| /u/Ok_Delay_911 They need to start using median salary because there's no way the average assistant professor makes over $90k. There's some private schools and Ivy Leagues skewing that shit way up. |
| /u/Danimals847 Salaries Georg, who was paid $100000/hr, was an outlier and should not be counted |
| /u/FlyAirLari Either way it's going to look weird if you actually do work for an ivy league school, and they show the median for all schools. |
| /u/nonotan Wouldn't that just be... accurate? "Median is $50k and you make $120k, congratulations". |
| /u/mathtree This is wild. I made significantly more as a postdoc (80kish) - 90k as an assistant professor doesn't strike me as a weird number, really rather average. I think for professorships it depends so much on your field and location that this is a meaningless stat. |
| /u/Red_Inferno Them telling you that you are not getting paid enough is how they make money, makes the user feel better that they have more opportunity. |
| /u/upnflames On the other side, it significantly underestimates high paying jobs in marketing and sales. I sell manufacturing automation equipment to regulated industries. It consistsntly has comp + bonus in my industry at about half of what the average sales rep makes. It's insane. |
| /u/xRehab how many of those reps are tenured and how many are fresh faces? in my experience, sales is an 80/20 game; 80% of sales people only bring in 20% of the commission, the other 20% bring in 80% of the commissions. the ones who are good make MONEY. the ones who are ok don't consistently hit goal |
| /u/Primary-Friend-7615 They really do lie and cherry pick the info they present to the public. I once saw (was printing/copying, collating, and binding) the annual application package that my then-employer was sending to one of those "top x employer" lists/awards/product placements/whatever you categorize them as, and which they got into pretty much every year at that point. They ask a whole bunch of questions and ask for information about the company and location that you are submitting the application for. And this application they created was the biggest piece of bs - it used photos of a newly-renovated office in one state, talked about the gym in a second office (that was part of the larger building amenities, not something the company did), the discounted transit pass available in a third specific location (city program), pictures of the walkable setting of another specific office (the "pretty" office was in the middle of an industrial park)... and made it sound like all of these benefits were available to all employees, which they absolutely were not. |
| /u/WabiSabiWitch A while back there was a meme urging folks to lie and inflate their earnings so new hires would think they were getting lowball offers. Wonder how much of this is folks . . . . Memeing. And in 1996 I thought the internet was gonna make the world a utopia. |
| /u/1nGirum1musNocte Is it adjusted for region? Idk how it works |