Reply #23: $100,000 a year to pick lettuce, people would jump at that job [View All]

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40 hours a week Times 52 weeks is 2080 work hours a year. If you take 2 week unpaid vacation that leaves 2000 work hours a year. At $50 a hour that is $100,000 a year.

At 100,000 a year you are among the richest 20% of Americans i.e. 80% of Americans make LESS money then 100,000 a year
http://felfoldi.wordpress.com/2007/04/05/does-your-family-make-100000yr/

The New York Time claims that only 10% of the population makes more then $100,000 a year in 2007:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/29/business/29tax.html

Wikipedia says 15.7% of Americans make more then $100,000 a year:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_States