What's your annual income (in U.S. dollars, before tax)?

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What's your annual income (converted to U.S. dollars)?

Nothing, I'm in school and living at home	5%	[ 4 ]
Nothing, I'm not in school and living at home	11%	[ 8 ]
I'm on welfare	11%	[ 8 ]
< $10,000	7%	[ 5 ]
$10,001 - $20,000	12%	[ 9 ]
$20,001 - $30,000	12%	[ 9 ]
$30,001 - $40,000	5%	[ 4 ]
$40,001 - $50,000	3%	[ 2 ]
$50,001 - $60,000	12%	[ 9 ]
$60,001 - $70,000	5%	[ 4 ]
$70,001 - $80,000	4%	[ 3 ]
$80,001 - $90,000	3%	[ 2 ]
$90,001 - $100,000	1%	[ 1 ]
> $100,000	4%	[ 3 ]
I'm retired	0%	[ 0 ]
My family is rich, so I don't have to work	3%	[ 2 ]

Total votes : 73

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25 Oct 2009, 3:32 pm

MrVulcan wrote:

Maggiedoll wrote:

Wait, um, I'm confused..
There's not a "disability" option in the poll, and disability is government support.

Sorry, I'm not very familiar with all the different terminology of government assistence programs. I'm sure it probably also varies from country to country, but I sort of lumped all types of government assistence into the Welfare option of the poll. I usually equate "disability payments" as something you get from your employee insurance package when you'll be off work for weeks due to some medical problem.
If there was a way to edit the poll options, I'd probably rename "Welfare" to "Government Assistence" to be more generic.

Being on "Welfare" generally has more negative connotations than "Disability." Welfare has kinda a trailer-park implication, so someone who has trouble working because of a disability will usually be really sensitive to it being referred to as welfare.
The actual confusion problem came more from the fact that Aimless thought that my response to the poll was a response to what she said.

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25 Oct 2009, 4:41 pm

18,000 euros - probably 27,000 dollars

I am supposed to be economist, but I do, basically, routine administrative work.

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25 Oct 2009, 4:48 pm

MrVulcan wrote:

Since autistic people are supposedly better in areas like math, science, technology...

What you mean by "autistic people are supposedly better in areas like math, science, technology"?

- That autistic people are supposed better in math, science, etc. than in other areas?

or

- That autisitic people are supposed better in math, science, etc. than NTs?

But, in a way or another, way these will imply that "we have better jobs & make more money than Muggles"? There is any reason to suspect that mathematicians and scientists make more money than, let's say, lawyers and salesmen?

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25 Oct 2009, 4:53 pm

Maggiedoll wrote:

I think that is more a problem of the people who make this kind of implication than of the the poll (and, btw, what is the problem of being "trailer-park" - yes, I know what the expression mean).

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25 Oct 2009, 4:54 pm

Good point [/b]TPE2[b]

I have family members in scientific fields and they have to teach to put food on the table while they conduct research in their field.

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25 Oct 2009, 4:55 pm

Part welfare, part work. I get about $7000 a year from work, the rest is payed for by Social Security and Section 8 housing subsidies.

I work through a non-profit that contracts disabled people out to various job sites.

Interesting tidbit, the designer of their website is a fellow Aspie co-worker.

http://www.heartland-industries.org/pag ... nings.aspx

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25 Oct 2009, 6:01 pm

TPE2 wrote:

MrVulcan wrote:

Since autistic people are supposedly better in areas like math, science, technology...

Mostly the first, but I guess a bit of the 2nd also, since we focus intensely on a single task...

TPE2 wrote:

But, in a way or another, way these will imply that "we have better jobs & make more money than Muggles"? There is any reason to suspect that mathematicians and scientists make more money than, let's say, lawyers and salesmen?

You forgot to include an important part of that quote: "on average".

So far only about 23% of us make over $50k/year, so I guess my hypothesis might be incorrect. I'll have to wait until there's a higher number of votes before I can be very sure though. But then again, I'm not sure what the poll results would be for Muggles, so I don't have a good reference for comparison.

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25 Oct 2009, 7:01 pm

I don't think a number, alone, says much. I'm not saying how much my husband makes (I'm a stay-at-home mom, and bring home no income), but I will say that I live in a part of the country where housing and groceries are ridiculously expensive. The number looks impressive, but once we've paid the mortgage on our too-small-for-us house, the deductible on my son's mood stablizer medication (so he doesn't kill himself in a fit of mania or depression), and gasoline so my husband can get to that good-paying job, which is nowhere near public transportation, there's hardly anything left. We wear clothes with holes in them, drive old cars, and have no cable TV. We rarely eat out or go anywhere, because we can't afford it. If we had debts, it would be worse. And yet, the actual income number pretty high, I think. Then again, a lot people have new TVs and lots of stuff because they are willing to buy things with credit cards, and spend the rest of their lives paying the minimum balance.

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25 Oct 2009, 7:06 pm

I am on SSI

$674 x 12 = $8088 + the $$ I make on the side for fixing Computers and that is not a lot.

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25 Oct 2009, 8:13 pm

I agree the number alone isn't the best indicator, but
1) This site doesn't appear to let you choose multiple answers (i.e. like checkboxes).
2) If I made it too complicated, some people would either answer incorrectly or not bother trying to answer.

BTW, I didn't expect people to actually post their income in their replies; just in the poll section where it's anonymous. But since we don't know either others real names anyways, I guess most people don't care...

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25 Oct 2009, 9:10 pm

I'm currently unemployed, but I was making between $1,500 and $2,000 a week at my last job.

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