Originally Posted by RedMenace
i don't know... that really depends. here in new york i average about $100 a day or just over that, but i don't work -that- hard. a lot of guys make substantially less than that, and a lot of guys make significantly more. the range can be fairly wide, actually. the rub is, it's expensive to live in new york. $110 a day doesn't go nearly as far here as it did in Philadelphia. if i worked quite hard at TCC, i could make upwards of $150 a day... if i worked 'normally,' i averaged about $100. in philadelphia that's a lot of money. in new york it isn't. relativity applies to more than just high-velocity particles (or particle-like objects)!
but not in the same sense, of course.
The sad thing is that's kind of how it was(around $100 day) ten years ago. And rent here is certainly different than what it was then.