Inflation since 1980 is 290%.
Your average tech worker makes, what? $150K per year? That would equal $51K per year in 1980.
Median household income in 1980 was $16K. Your dad had a pretty awesome salary for being a laborer.
Your average tech worker makes, what? $150K per year? That would equal $51K per year in 1980.
Median household income in 1980 was $16K. Your dad had a pretty awesome salary for being a laborer.
Per Zillow, the median home value in San Francisco is $1,117,300. For the rest of the USA it is $188,900.
If you are willing to drive 2 hours each way to work, and live in the middle of nowhere, you can pay the low price of $630,000 in Gilroy.
Things are crazy here. If you don't live here it can be hard to understand.
Working from those numbers, the bus driver math still doesn't work.