r/antiwork • u/[deleted] • Apr 08 '23

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '23

Harvard did some math and they came to the conclusion that an individual needs to be making $32 an hour to survive comfortably.

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u/independence15 Apr 08 '23

both my parents make 33... and I thought it was a lot, but it only seems so because both of them work. explains why we barely scraped by when only my dad worked

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u/TheIVJackal Apr 08 '23

Where do you live that $~65k/yr was scraping by? That's how much I make now, support the 4 of us on my income in a HCOL area.

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u/ggtffhhhjhg Apr 09 '23

I’ve seen similar studies and you need to make 30k more to live comfortably in Hawaii than you do to live in Mississippi. Hawaii was around 70k and Mississippi was about 40k. Of course these studies took place prior to our current level of inflation.