Moving!
I am moving to a new apartment. I am also reading The Four-Hour Workweek.
Together, these things prompt me to ask for this blog poll: How many hours per month do you have to work to pay your rent? (For example, if you make $80,000 a year and pay $2,000 a month, that's about $38/hour, so you work about 53 hours to pay your rent. If you work a $10/hr job and pay $450, you work 45 hours to pay your rent, which makes you, in a way, a little bit richer).
So please answer this (anonymously) in the comments: How many hours do you work to pay your rent, and what city do you live in?
Together, these things prompt me to ask for this blog poll: How many hours per month do you have to work to pay your rent? (For example, if you make $80,000 a year and pay $2,000 a month, that's about $38/hour, so you work about 53 hours to pay your rent. If you work a $10/hr job and pay $450, you work 45 hours to pay your rent, which makes you, in a way, a little bit richer).
So please answer this (anonymously) in the comments: How many hours do you work to pay your rent, and what city do you live in?
posted by JenIsFamous at 5/27/2007 11:14:00 AM
12 Comments:
I'm looking at about 55 hours and my fiance works about 46 to pay our mortgage in VA.
Before we bought the house we had an apartment about 20 miles from DC and I was working about 25 hours and my fiance was working about 40.
(This was a super-anonymous comment. No one could ever figure this one out.)
I live in Northern Fairfield County, CT, and my rent comes out to about 40 hours a month. (That assumes I'm paying all of it; I share the apartment with my spouse.)
94 hours a month, Austin, Texas. Caveats: I am a graduate student (i.e., poor and work constantly) and own my house (i.e., kind of expensive).
That said, reading the above number makes me cringe. It's really not that bad down here.
I'll get the ball rolling... 14. What's your number?
My first 37 hours a month go to paying my mortgage even though I actually work more hours for the same wage. This is set to rise to 46 hours as soon as I can move into my new house. I'm not counting the wages of my partner at all in this. She'd have to work 146 hours to pay the mortgage alone. There is no gender disparity here. Honest.
We live all the way over in merry old England.
I hope you don't mind but I'm going to steel this for my own blog.
I'm living on the south side of Chicago, paying a mere 25 hours a month, and begrudingly getting what I paid for.
This exercise reminds me of Your Money or Your Life by
I live in New York City and my rent is 59 hours a month. But I'm okay with that, although I would love to work just 59 and then spend the rest of my time reading novels and eating bonbons.
If you are counting pre-tax dollars, I work 42 hours to make my rent here in San Francisco -- but those hours go up if u count after-tax dollars and go back down if you count the money my wife makes, so let's just call it 42 and leave it that way.
11 hours. New York City.
Depends slighly on who my employer is. At the moment, I can pay my rent after working 42 hours; often I need to work as many as 56. I live in Brooklyn.
25 hours. I actually feel pretty good about that, being in Hong Kong, one of the most expensive housing markets in the world.
Then again, that's based on a 40 hour wek which is total fiction.
I live in NYC and work about ten hours a month to pay my rent. My boyfriend works about three. Just putting this into words horrifys me because it's not like I ever have any extra money--I have super cheap rent. I should be ashamed of myself. He and I are going to have a talk tonite. No need for all our debt.
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