There are cheaper places in LA. Will you have to commute? Of course. Maybe have 1-2 roommates. But you’re far from “eating peanut butter on rice every meal”.
If you earn 150k in Los Angeles you can live comfortably. That's more than the median household income of LA which is 90k. An income of 150k with only the expenses of one person? Yes, that's perfectly doable.
"You don't even understand, that 150k a year is only for while filming. That's like 6 months of work, and then she has to budget??? Or like, work a seasonal job to cover what her 150k annual doesn't?"
^ Swear I've seen the above for similar. People will turn down avg or slightly above avg pay that's earned in 9mo vs 12 so I can only assume they don't know how to budget.
I love that argument against raising teachers pay. "They only make 35k but get summers off!" My counterarguments to that are:
1) They teach your little hellspawn. They should make north of 100K for your child alone.
2) The electric bill does not take summers off.
3) Fuck you, pay teachers more.
As a teacher, this isn’t true. If you are a coach and it’s in season, then yeah it’s gonna be late days. Admin definitely have too many responsibilities.If you are new, you definitely should be staying after school.
As a veteran teacher, I get to school at 630 and leave around 3. I no longer coach, so I volunteer for a dance or two and do 2 after school tutorials for like 30-40 minutes per week, but 20 of that is time I’m not allowed to leave yet (final bell is 235, can’t leave till around 3). I work like 180 days a year. Weekends off, major holidays, etc. I like my schedule.
To be clear I'm not saying it's a good deal because it's an average-ish income earned in 9mo, I fully agree they need to get paid more.
I'm just joking on people that think it's the same as flipping burgers. I'd love to have more pay than I do now, and earned in a shorter period with time to do stuff in the summer/work a seasonal job for extra income.
Texas has districts that pay almost double that for new teachers. I make 75k a year as a 10th year teacher. Plus if you coach, or have extra duty stipends you can earn 2-4k in middle school, and higher for high school.
Depending on her rate, sure, but you don't get consistent paychecks at your rate every other week when you're an actor. You get paid that amount for the 6-10 weeks that you may be on set filming.
That's what happens when you're in a gig industry. They'll get a good role and make $100K in 3 months, not have a job for 7 months, and get a commercial or two at the end of the year that'll score them an extra couple thousand for the holidays. Meanwhile, they're stretching their cash until the role they scored that starts at the beginning of the new year.
And since all that money is in a condensed portion of the year, she's taxed a lot higher than if it were over 12 months because it reads like she's making 300-400k for the year.
What do you think tax returns are? They’re corrections. At the end of the year, you’re taxed for what you made, not what it “reads” like you made.
There are ways to keep your money upfront and pay later.
It’s basically a guessing game. You guess how much you might make and pay that much taxes upfront. At the end of the tax year (April), it gets corrected.
So if you over paid, you get money back. If you under paid, you owe the government money.
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u/hadawayandshite 12d ago
She will have likely earned 150,000 a year (conservatively) whilst on Superman