\t\t\t\tAs a programmer I make a decent living. But it seems like I make a pittance compared to certain kinds of labor that you don’t even need a high-school education to perform.<\/p>\n
Case 1:<\/b> Plus tip of course.<\/p>\n Lets give them the benefit of the doubt and say that a haircut takes half an hour. The senior haircutter then makes $80 an hour (plus tip). A 15% tip adds $12 to that. Lets say that the store takes half of that $80. That’s still $40 + $12 = $52 an hour which is pretty damn good considering you don’t even need a high school education to be a barber. Case 2:<\/b> Case 3:<\/b> The apartment seemed OK. When asked the price, the agent responded something to the effect of “$800 a month, utilities included. [Pause] Plus my fee.” Counting everything everything we spent about 40 minutes there. But to make the math easy lets make it an hour to count for incidental time incurred. Case 4:<\/b> Lawyers and recruiters are also overpaid according to the work they do but at least you need an education for that. These are all uneducated semi-skilled jobs, which shouldn’t pay more than $20 an hour at most.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As a programmer I make a decent living. But it seems like I make a pittance compared to certain kinds of labor that you don’t even need a high-school education to perform. Case 1: Barber I went to get a haircut today. The first place I went to charged $17. So I walked across the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBarber<\/b>
\nI went to get a haircut today. The first place I went to charged $17. So I walked across the street to this place with “Salon” in the name, as if that made it any different from any place that cut your hair. They charged<\/p>\n\n
\nHourly Wage: $52<\/p>\n
\nWaiter<\/b>
\nI took my wife to a fancy restaurant for our annivesary. The meal came out to be about $150 and we didn’t order wine. We took about 45 minutes but to make the math easy make it an hour (for cleaning the table and crap). There were 8 people total serviced from this waiter, including us. Assuming the average customer spends $75 on food, that’s $600 an hour on food. The wine there was between $50 and $200 per person. We didn’t order wine but the other 6 did. Assuming they each spent $75 on average on wine that’s 6 * 75 = $450. So the restaurant takes in $1050 an hour per waiter. If the waiter gets 15% of that as tip that’s $157.5 untaxed income, plus whatever their usual salary is!
\nHourly Wage: $157.50 + salary.<\/p>\n
\nRental agents<\/b>
\nWhen I was in Germany my wife and I were looking for apartments. We had a rental agent (the company got her) with us who did the following:<\/p>\n\n
\nMe: “Um… Fee? How much is the fee?”
\nHer: “2 months rent.”
\nMe: “So you mean $1600???”
\nHer: “Yes.”<\/p>\n
\nHourly Wage: $1600<\/p>\n
\nReal Estate Agent<\/b>
\nThis one isn’t by the hour so much as it is by the house – usually 6% of the selling price. Around here the average selling price is $750,000. That’s $45,000! I’ve read that they sometimes lower the commision rate after the first $100,000. So to give them the benefit of the doubt, lets make it $30,000. Lets say you are a discriminating client and look at 50 houses before buying one. Each house takes 1 hour to show around.
\nHourly Wage: $600<\/p>\n