ooc: Finances
Apr. 28th, 2009 02:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
a_time_slipThis has been bugging me all night, so I did some research.
ETA: Most of this is obsolete. She's only doing the gigs and cannot afford the apartment. I'm working something out plot wise to resolve this.
Median pay for a grocery store employee in the state of New York is $10.02. ($1600 a month. She works a lot of overtime, but I won't include that, since she's not getting the median pay)
Under the table workers are paid about $300 a week. If she got an apartment on the lower end of the price range, she'd just barely be able to afford it. When I say just barely, that means eating a lot of ramen and not having cable or using much electricity. (If the bill gets paid at all). She was able to move in without the proper histories because she had a couple of influential people pull strings for her. If nothing else, her rent will be paid.
I'll give her a second job of washing dishes at a hotel, which pays about $7 an hour. If she works that job for twenty hours a week, that's 560. I'm not sure about taxes (she's an undocumented worker), so I'll reduce that to $500.
That brings her income to $1700 a month. If her rent was at the top level of $1400 she would barely be able to live there. I don't think it would be on the higher end of the $1100-$1400 scale, simply because the people who helped her get the apartment know her financial status
The gigs play $60 per night (Which I came up with by searching to see how much live artists made.) $120 a week, $480 a month providing the gig lasts that long
Work Schedule - 5:30am-2pm Monday through Friday, Grocery Store (She works over a lot, but isn't paid for the overtime)
4:00pm-6:00pm Wednesday, Thursday, Hotel
8:30am-5:00pm- Saturday, Sunday, Hotel
5:00pm-1:00am- Friday, Saturday (singing in restaurant at the same Hotel)
She gets paid weekly, in cash. The gigs are paid right after she performs in them. They were added for the game![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
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I need to work on this some, or have her get a better job. She'll burn out soon!
ETA: Most of this is obsolete. She's only doing the gigs and cannot afford the apartment. I'm working something out plot wise to resolve this.
Median pay for a grocery store employee in the state of New York is $10.02. ($1600 a month. She works a lot of overtime, but I won't include that, since she's not getting the median pay)
Under the table workers are paid about $300 a week. If she got an apartment on the lower end of the price range, she'd just barely be able to afford it. When I say just barely, that means eating a lot of ramen and not having cable or using much electricity. (If the bill gets paid at all). She was able to move in without the proper histories because she had a couple of influential people pull strings for her. If nothing else, her rent will be paid.
I'll give her a second job of washing dishes at a hotel, which pays about $7 an hour. If she works that job for twenty hours a week, that's 560. I'm not sure about taxes (she's an undocumented worker), so I'll reduce that to $500.
That brings her income to $1700 a month. If her rent was at the top level of $1400 she would barely be able to live there. I don't think it would be on the higher end of the $1100-$1400 scale, simply because the people who helped her get the apartment know her financial status
The gigs play $60 per night (Which I came up with by searching to see how much live artists made.) $120 a week, $480 a month providing the gig lasts that long
Work Schedule - 5:30am-2pm Monday through Friday, Grocery Store (She works over a lot, but isn't paid for the overtime)
4:00pm-6:00pm Wednesday, Thursday, Hotel
8:30am-5:00pm- Saturday, Sunday, Hotel
5:00pm-1:00am- Friday, Saturday (singing in restaurant at the same Hotel)
She gets paid weekly, in cash. The gigs are paid right after she performs in them. They were added for the game
8thnote_records I need to work on this some, or have her get a better job. She'll burn out soon!