re: Where Young Americans Earn the Most - Mapped (Median Income)

There is, or at least there should be, a huge difference in a 25 year old just getting started in their career, than someone who’s in their mid-40s and has been in their career since the 25 year old was still playing with action figures and learning to read.

I got 4 more years of being young!!!

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still playing with action figures

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Darth_Vader

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hmmmm

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think some of you misunderstood what I was saying. I wasn’t saying the 25 year old is still playing with action figures at 25. I was saying the 44 year old started his career roughly 20 years before the 25 year old did…

25-20=5

And I think 5 years old is a pretty normal age for kids to play with action figures.

Why that obviously true statement triggers some is beyond me.

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gotcha baw, I can be a little slow on the uptake at times

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Now normalize it against cost of living...

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Now read the post. Dat is key point of it.

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My wages in CA is probably double if not more than they would be back in Louisiana.

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I have lived in Bay Area.

Housing!!!, SIT and “hidden” taxes (in fuel prices, car inspection for examples) and lifestyle, but lifestyle is part of why you live in CA.

Great experience there! However, raising kids in CA came with a “tax” of other sorts we chose to avoid (materialism, politics, family, etc).

I get paid almost double in Houston for the same job I had in Lafayette. My COL is about $1500 more per month (higher mortgage along with property taxes). More than makes up for it, just have to deal with a lot more traffic but I'm only 8 miles from my home office and I can work from home one day a week.

Wife also makes about $1700 more per month than she did in Lafayette as a teacher with a similar role.

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Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and West Virginia report the country’s lowest median incomes for young households, all below $72K.

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Poor public education and demographics have consequences.

Mississippi's GDP per capita is slightly higher than Germany's.

And this isn't a "Germans" post. That's an actual fact.

Germany $65,303

Mississippi $66,000

Canada's GDP per capita is only $60,305. Canada used to be on par with the USA, but now America's worst performing state is surpassing them.

England is about $61,000 - only slightly higher than Canada and below Mississippi.