didn’t realize. I’ve never made over $40k and that was just one year with a helluva lot of 80 hour work weeks. Normally it’s been about $25-30k. Blue collar ‘wages’ have gone up maybe 10-20% over the last few decades. Meanwhile the price of most everything doubled or tripled. Guess I should have stayed up north or moved back and gone union. My dad did ok being blue collar, non union but that was the good old days. Then again, he couldn’t afford to send any of us to college so...
Area worked hasn’t been as important as type of job, on average. Those # I gave wouldn’t have included FICA, state, property taxes nor sales tax.