Americans normally report and talk about their salaries on an annual basis (by year) and not by month, although people seldom talk about how much they make in daily, social situations. It’s considered a taboo (not acceptable) to ask someone how much they make, though some people may bring it up themselves.

Americans also talk about salaries as a gross number, meaning that it is before taxes are taken out. I don’t know what the average national tax rate is off the top of my head. About 40% make too little to pay any income taxes, but about 25-35% is about what I would estimate it to be.

Yes, Peter, it would be nice to make the large salaries of stars we see in TV shows and movies. Unfortunately, only a very small number of people ever reach that level of success. For the rest of us, we’ll just have to keep doing our work everyday until we make it big (become famous)!

Statically speaking, Actors and actress makes real money, they are big man. Considering the fact , I guess getting into film industry specially as an actor or actress is way more lucrative than the jobs you are listing above. Believe you me ,they live in a cloud-cuckoo-land where they don’t need to pull a stunt to make wishes come true simply because everything is at their finger prints. What do you make of it my friend,Lucy?

Also it is so amazing that an important work, I think really fundamental, as elementary education is the lowest of the ten.
I do not understand anything about the world I am living, and as much older I am the less I assume.

The life is expensive, sometimes very expensive and we must work hard, sometimes very hard. Normaly, our salary is as high as soft is the job we’re doing. That is, the job that want to do anybody, is the job that needs more effort and it has a salary more low, besides, the hiring are precarious. I think that in those jobs is where the government must put the point.

I think that would be good an rapprochement of the extremes, at least a little. Don’t you think so?

Greetings.