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Wow 8$ haircut is cheap. In Belgium it's 20€ for men and 40€ for women on avg. Minus taxes the (independent) barber/hairdresser pockets 10/20€ per customer. Which is 30-60€/h I suppose.
Comparatively a software employee/consultant pockets about 12-25€/h netto but a freelancer can pocket over 50€/h. Regardless employee-consultants & freelancers both cost the customer 500 - 1200€/day -
Where are you that you make 1/4 USA minimum wage yet a haircut still costs that much?
Also don't forget hidden costs: your pay rate is for you, after the costs of business are paid for. That was removed before your paycheck.
You are not paying your barber directly, you are paying their business. They will spend some of that on rent, utilities, benefits, etc, before taking gone the rest. And that can be a deep cut. -
One big error in your calculation, the barbers Company makes $24 per hour they have customers in shop.
If they have a steady stream 8 hours a day sure but if days are not fully booked you would need to average out that to get real per hour earnings.
Next, the actual shop pays rent, I am not sure but is your company’s rent taken out from your pay? If you work from home that does only count if the barber also works from home :)
Then you have corporate tax, products and much more and in the end you will find the actual earnings if the barber.
And all that overhead can take a bug chunk out of the gross earnings before you get the net per barber.
Not they might still earn more, but then there are also a lot more devs than barbers in the world :P -
Do you also pay rent and all the same taxes as the barber? And pay for all the supplies (consumables and tools)?
Also, would you prefer to enjoy brushing peoples' greasy hair daily from dusk to dawn?
Sure, it sounds tempting when you see a big number, $24/hr. But when you account for all the expenses the barber has to pay, all the obstacles he has to deal with (an independent business),... doesn't look that tempting any more
I just went to a new barber for a haircut. Costed me $8. The barber earned $8 in 20 minutes and immediately went to cut another guy. This means the barber earns $24 per hour.
I, a software engineer with a computer science university degree working in IT tech field as a java backend software engineer on complex government software that sells gas & energy, get paid, and I will be exact to the cent: $3.75 per hour.
This means a barber earns 6.4 TIMES MORE per hour than I do as a software engineer with a computer science degree.
This also means that, it takes me 1 WHOLE DAY to earn as a software engineer with computer science degree, what the barber earns in 1 hour.
Therefore, this further means, after all of life expenses food bills rent taxes etc, that i can barely afford to go to barber. A barber for $8, is not very cheap for me as a software engineer with computer science degree.
I can not explain the utmost disrespect towards me and disappointment to be working as a software engineer with computer science degree.
I, as a software engineer with computer science degree, feel like I am used as an african wage slave to work extremely hard jobs for a below average wage. I am saddened and disgusted. This is shameful and must be illegal.
After all of what I've been through and everything I've seen, it turns out school was everything BUT the path to success. School was a path to failure... A path to eternal wage slave and poverty...
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