Wont accept or can’t?
Fear of job loss hits its highest point in years—but workers won’t accept less than $81,000
Submitted 4 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to workreform@lemmy.world
https://fortune.com/article/workers-salary-layoffs-81000-job-search-wages-survey/
Comments
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 4 months ago
Fortune is out here painting narratives. It’s okay, keep going, we’ll keep striking.
recentSloth43@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Should i work a soul crushing job and starve? Or not work a soul crushing job and starve? Such a hard choice!
wonderfulvoltaire@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Where are these jobs you speak of which such a salary
Taco2112@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The trades: carpentry, plumbing, roofing, etc. Plus side, it doesn’t require a degree.
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Basically, jobs that destroy your body, so you can’t work past 55 anyway.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Better save and be prepared to retire early.
unbanshee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Where I live, two of the three trades you listed require completion of 4-year apprenticeships, including a minimum of 6 weeks of in-school technical training per year. It’s much cheaper to train as an apprentice than it is to pay other post-secondary tuitions, and you earn an income most of the time you’re an apprentice, but the reality is a lot more complicated.
And it’s also very easy to be employed in most trades and not make that much. It depends on which trade you’re in, how much punishment you can take, and whether you’re in a union job or not.
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Trade work, office type jobs in big cities with an established career, police, and Onlyfans.
Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Most only fans creators aren’t even able to pull min wage. It’s a side gig for all but the top percent or two.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 months ago
Police are an excellent example of why unions should be armed.
w3dd1e@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I’ve been trying to switch careers and get into software development. I look at a lot of postings and I see a lot of $40,000 “entry level” jobs that require 2-3 years experience and a degree.
It makes me angry.
horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The years of experience are a filter, ignore them. Focus on if you understand the problem the team is trying to solve. Or if you can learn it in a reasonable time.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You know what we do with cover letters?
Throw them in the trash.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
An iteration of the survey taken in July found that 4.4% of respondents expect to lose their jobs in the near future. To put that into context, the only other time it’s ever hit 4% was when the pandemic struck in March 2020.
That’s pretty stark.
But despite fears they may be jobless soon, today’s job seekers won’t accept less than $81,147—up by almost $20,000 since March 2020. This figure is the average reservation wage of workers, which is the lowest wage at which respondents would be willing to accept a new job.
I guess people polled are doing better than I’d expect. I thought a lot of people have to accept a fair amount lower than this. How many fast food workers are making this much? Maybe in California (where cost of living is also much higher), but I doubt it in Alabama.
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
I thought a lot of people have to accept a fair amount lower than this.
I mean, they could accept lower, but then they’d be homeless and starving but still employed, so they can’t get any benefits.
Not really a choice they’d willingly want to make.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 4 months ago
California fast food workers are getting $20+ / hour but there’s no fucking way the average worker is getting 29+ hours a week. They’d be owed benefits.
Lennnny@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I just quit a $90k a year job due to stress, burnout, and the fact that the company was a total con and I could no longer shill their crappy AI product. I’ll be back on the job hunt in the new year and I’m not particularly looking forward to it. I’m actually contemplating taking something lower paid so the process is quicker and I have less to lose when it’s shit and I burn out again.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 4 months ago
When cost of living goes up every year by 3-5%, you can’t accept dirt wages… it’s starting to feel like maybe we got a raw deal with this infinite boom bust cycle capitalism has created for the pleebs.
pdxfed@lemmy.world 4 months ago
starting to feel?
Pacific is a puddle of water then eh?
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Just a small swamp cooler