If you work in the field of arts administration, you’ve probably figured out that it isn’t exactly the ideal career if your primary goal in life is to secure a position at the top of the economic food chain.
Having said that, and regardless of your position in the field, it’s still good to keep tabs on up to date wage data and I published an article at ArtsHacker on 2/6/2015 that examines the MIT Living Wage Calculator created by Amy Glasmeier, a professor of economic geography and regional planning at MIT, is a handy resource in that effort.
It’s a terrific resource and one that should find its way into your bookmarks.
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2 thoughts on “This Handy Living Wage Calculator Drills Down To City Level Data”
I don’t know what planet these people live on but in my county in the South, it is impossible to find housing for $670 a month anywhere I’ve ever looked here and I’ve been all over the rental sites, Craigslist, etc., or to spend only $242 on food for 1 person for an entire month, and only $77 on “other”–utilities alone are $200 a month at a minimum (water, gas, phone, electric) even without internet and when one is on the even payment plans for gas and electric, and utilities are not even listed as an expense item that I could see. This is way off base in my opinion. $20,000 salary for one person annually? Let’s get real; not in any city of any size.
Did you look at the source material references at their About page: http://livingwage.mit.edu/pages/about, likewise, don’t forget that those figures are the minimum thresholds via poverty rates so what you may be thinking as living wage may not be the same as their context.
Having said that, and regardless of your position in the field, it’s still good to keep tabs on up to date wage data and I published an article at ArtsHacker on 2/6/2015 that examines the MIT Living Wage Calculator created by Amy Glasmeier, a professor of economic geography and regional planning at MIT, is a handy resource in that effort.
I don’t know what planet these people live on but in my county in the South, it is impossible to find housing for $670 a month anywhere I’ve ever looked here and I’ve been all over the rental sites, Craigslist, etc., or to spend only $242 on food for 1 person for an entire month, and only $77 on “other”–utilities alone are $200 a month at a minimum (water, gas, phone, electric) even without internet and when one is on the even payment plans for gas and electric, and utilities are not even listed as an expense item that I could see. This is way off base in my opinion. $20,000 salary for one person annually? Let’s get real; not in any city of any size.
Did you look at the source material references at their About page: http://livingwage.mit.edu/pages/about, likewise, don’t forget that those figures are the minimum thresholds via poverty rates so what you may be thinking as living wage may not be the same as their context.