Serious question for California employees only: How are you guys surviving on these McDonald’s-level wages?
With rent, mortgages, groceries, gas, insurance and everything else costing what it does in California, I genuinely don’t understand how some of these salaries are supposed to be enough.
I’m especially curious about people making around $50k–$70k a year. Are you living with family, splitting rent, working a second job, or just barely getting by?
California responses only please. I’m not interested in hearing how $60k is “great money” in Mississippi, Oklahoma, or some random low-cost state. I’m specifically asking how people make it work in California.