On: The strategic use of titles to avoid overtime payments

[gizmo686]

We are talking about the threshold for being exempt from one of the major victories of the workers rights movement. Thrme bar for such an exemptions should be high.

$27/hour comes to about $56,160 a year

According to HUD [0], that qualifies and individual as "very low income" in San Francisco, CA (threshhold $65,250)

For California overall, you would merely be "low income" (threshhold $56,450)

In Houston Texas, that would be "low income" for a family of 2. (Threshhold 56,700)

[0] https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/il.html

[CPLX → gizmo686]

It's pretty hard to claim that a number represents "low income" when it's above the national median income.

It might not be fun to live on, granted, but if more than 50% of the data points are lower, it's probably not reasonably described as "low".

[chrismcb → CPLX]

According to the us census bureau the median household income in 2021 was 71k.

[qwytw → chrismcb]

Well that's household income. Many households have more than 1 earner...

[bobkazamakis → CPLX]

lol? I find it fascinating you went out of your way to use median. Gotta practice those gymnastics.

[CPLX → bobkazamakis]

Median is the generally accepted approach to determining the average value in a large data set of income figures, as it takes into account both the distribution of values as well as the gross income number. The mean is merely a restatement of gross income.

[Panzer04 → bobkazamakis]

What's wrong with using Median? More than 50% of the population makes less than that.

[funstr → Panzer04]

Actually less than 50% of population makes less than that if you consider that some people earn exactly the median.