Moving to the US?

Harry Angstrom said:
It isn't my median salary. It is google's median income. I assume it is people of working age. So the person bang in the middle.

To be fair I've google again and there are a fair few numbers bandied about.

It looks like 53% of household have income less tahn $75k and 37% less than $50k

I looked and average salary in Tyne and wear was £27k.

I will take all these figures with a pinch of salt.

Not sure. I wish I'd never googled :lol: :lol:

When people say average salary it is always skewed higher because of the top earners.
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It isn't though as I've given a breakdown. The largest income bracket is 50-75k
 


monkeytassle said:
Average salary being skewed higher. When it's broken down into buckets it doesn't matter what Jeff bezos earns
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18 Feb 2020 — Average U.S. income: $87,864 As of 2018, the average U.S. household income was $87,864, while the median household income was $61,937. When the median is considerably lower than the average, it means that there are outliers on the top end. ..

I did reckon that the average Joe was going to find it difficult but on the median family household income of £45k that seems decent. There are still 50% of the population on less.
 
Lambchops said:
Similar to the company I work for - we're actually looking to take some of the basic processing work (AP,AR) etc from the US to here in CZ, the potential cost savings are unreal.

Some of the commutes the lads in the US have are nuts mind - a couple I work with leave the house at 5am for a 8.30 start and don't get home til after 9pm
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In the UK people will moan if you invite them to a 9am meeting. In the US, 8am meetings are normal and last week I had someone in the US arrange a meeting at 7am their time.
 
There is a big skew is salaries over there. We have a factory in the US, where the production operators get about the same salary as ours in UK (+/- 10%). But the managers / directors get 50-100% more than we do.
 
Harry Angstrom said:
18 Feb 2020 — Average U.S. income: $87,864 As of 2018, the average U.S. household income was $87,864, while the median household income was $61,937. When the median is considerably lower than the average, it means that there are outliers on the top end. ..

I did reckon that the average Joe was going to find it difficult but on the median family household income of £45k that seems decent. There are still 50% of the population on less.
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It really depends. That's pre-tax income, so where you live is going to have a big influence on that. Federal taxes will be the same, but state and local taxes (let alone non-tax cost of living) matters a ton. Granted, my spouse (no) and I make more than the median by a fair amount, but when we moved from a state with a relatively high state income tax to one with no state income tax, we saved double-digit thousands per year. Even a family on that median household income would save $5k per year moving from a high-tax state to Texas (for example). Hence why so many people move from San Francisco to Seattle.

Darlo1973 said:
In the UK people will moan if you invite them to a 9am meeting. In the US, 8am meetings are normal and last week I had someone in the US arrange a meeting at 7am their time.
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That's partly because we have to when we're working with Europe. Where I work, I stack European meetings early, often as early as 6. If you're on Pacific time, it's even worse. It's rare to have a US-only meeting before 8:30.

taipeisafc said:
We had process operators in Texas earning 100k a year, engineers a couple of years out of college were pulling in 150k in the Texas gulf coast area.
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Were those offshore? Pretty nice money if not.
 
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May 2020 National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates lists 800 occupations and both their mean and median (50th percentile) annual salary (pre tax)

Here are some median salaries for selected occupations:

Petroleum Engineers - $137,330 (75th percentile - $189,030)
Aerospace Engineers - $118,610 (75th percentile - $148,570)
Computer Hardware Engineers - $119,560
Chemical Engineers - $108,540
Electrical Engineers - $100,830 (75th percentile - $128,680)
Mechanical Engineers - $90,160
Civil Engineers - $88,570

Doctors - $208,000 (doesn't give 75th percentile)
Dentists - $158,940 (75th percentile greater than $208,000)
Lawyers - $126,930 (75th percentile - $189,520)

Teachers - $65,440 (75th percentile - $92,010)
Nurses - $75,330 (75th percentile - $93,590)
 
Darlo1973 said:
In the UK people will moan if you invite them to a 9am meeting. In the US, 8am meetings are normal and last week I had someone in the US arrange a meeting at 7am their time.
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4 different time zones. my colleagues in San Francisco take the conference call at 5:30 PT when its 8:30 ET in New York (and 13:30 here in London)
 
PulseSafc said:
Anyone ever tried it? How difficult is it to do these days?
Always wanted to move across and i'm in the midst of thinking fuck it, and doing it, but I understand it's fairly difficult to do so. Has anyone ever done it on here?

Mam and dad used to live in southern California, been many times and always had an affinity with it.

Might still be a pie in the sky idea but it's one of those leap of faith type moves that i'm close to
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Just knocked back a long term job there last year.
Worked there a few times, its alreet but I think there is going to be a lot of civil unrest there soon.
Living in Houston was alreet but they are thick as f..k the locals like.
 
Vauxie said:
Just knocked back a long term job there last year.
Worked there a few times, its alreet but I think there is going to be a lot of civil unrest there soon.
Living in Houston was alreet but they are thick as f..k the locals like.
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Houston's a pretty extreme representation of the US in many respects.
 
Vauxie said:
Just knocked back a long term job there last year.
Worked there a few times, its alreet but I think there is going to be a lot of civil unrest there soon.
Living in Houston was alreet but they are thick as f..k the locals like.
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Writing off approx four million people as “thick as fuck” doesn’t exactly bode well for your intelligence like.
Houston is the home of the Texas Medical Centre which is the largest concentration of medical facilities, universities, labs, research etc on the planet along with the Texas Heart Institute pioneering cardiovascular interventions for decades and MD Anderson Cancer Centre one of the leading cancer hospitals in the country / world. It’s also a massive hub for oil and gas, finance, computers and tech, probably close to a dozen universities and at a stretch you might include NASA too. But aye they must all be thick as fuck.
 
Our mirrors office in the US all earn 3x the UK base rate; and are half as efficient working twice as many hours. . . But can and do get sacked frequently.
 
The soap powder said:
Just my opinion mate

Lovely place and not just your tourist places but all the other places too

Ive spent some time out there travelling around and its my happy place
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I love it too, might move there one day.

I'm worried I'm romanticising it a bit though.

The climate is fantastic and having a pool etc would be great.
 

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