 | | Re: Some Lego buying stats —Selçuk Göre
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| | | Hi guys, Just like to know what is the conditions of living in US. For example, what amount an engineer (a common one, say a mechanical engineer working in a production facility, say automotive industry, with an experience of 3-4 years), a (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jun-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: Some Lego buying stats —Kyle D. Jackson
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| | | | | (...) The mechanical engineer in automotive with 3-4 years experience would earn about 45,000 to 65,000 I would say. New grad engineers start in the 45,000 range. Engineers with 5-8 years experience will be in the 55,000 to 75,000 range. Above 8 (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: Some Lego buying stats —Maggie Cambron
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| | | | | (...) Here is what a teacher in the Fairfield Suisun Unified School District in Northern California can currently expect to make (I choose this example because they are currently on strike and their salaries are a public issue). A starting teacher (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | Re: Some Lego buying stats —Selçuk Göre
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| | | | | | | (...) Wow!.. A really big wow!.. When considering our income levels (me and my wife can only make around 15000 USD/year, both being engineers) it looks amazing. What I'm wondering is what kind of a living you could buy with 40-50000 USD/year. For (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Some Lego buying stats —Duane Hess
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Well, I guess that I will add to this. I live in a different part of the country than Maggie, but I imagine that there is a general multiplier somewhere that you could use to adjust for different regions in the US. Mortgage (includes insurance (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Some Lego buying stats —Jason Maxwell
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| | | | | | | | | (...) I'll jump in here. I can actually give you info for two different scenarios, since I just went through a location and employment change semi-recently (2 years ago). Background: B.S. in Aeronautical/Astronautical Engineering, U of Washington (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Some Lego buying stats —Jim Hughes
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Selcuk: An interesting topic. Housing costs in the US varies widely based on geography as well as supply and demand. I live in Cincinnati OH, where house prices are pretty reasonable. An exsisting 3 bedroom 1-story house averages about 90,000 (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Some Lego buying stats —Maggie Cambron
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| | | | | | | | (...) Hi again, Selcuk (sorry I don't know how to type the proper "c"!), All of the answers to your question so far have been pretty representative of the middle class (and we are probably more highly educated on Lugnet than average), but I don't (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: Some Lego buying stats —Ben Roller
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| | | | | | (...) My soon-to-be wife (6 weeks!) is currently looking for employment in a school in the Central Kentucky area, so I have some numbers from that for a comparison. (...) Here, a starting teacher with no experience makes from $25,000-$32,000 based (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: Some Lego buying stats —Selçuk Göre
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| | | | Thank you very much for the inputs Maggie..:-) (...) Actually, although we (me and my wife) earn quite above the average in Turkish terms, (minimum legal wage is 107 million TL here, and 1 USD=1.25 million TL), I think it does not buy us a decent (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Some Lego buying stats —Maggie Cambron
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| | | | (...) My sister lives in a two bedroom two bath apartment in Santa Monica, probably considered a desirable neighborhood (whenever you see a Southern California street lined with those tall skinny palm trees in a movie, chances are good it is her (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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