Do you consider a salary of $2,000 a month to be good money?

[Anonymous]

Yeah

Nah

Depends on age

[zeitgeist057]

Here in the USA, that's terrible, like poverty level of $24K/year. I would say a good wage starts around $40K, and that's if you are going to live cheaply and not spend a lot of money, nor would you have much in the way of savings or being able to buy a home or have investments.

At around $75K, as long as you are still not spending a lot of money on wasteful things, you can start to put away money for investments and retirement.

"Good" money is kind of vague. There's money you can survive on, there's money you can thrive on. It gets funny above $75K, there becomes a much wider variety of ways you can start to spend that disposable income. Are you going to splurge and enjoy it now, or invest and build financial security in case of emergency or looking ahead to retirement? But $2K/month is not a lot, and only "good money" compared to making nothing or some pittance like a babysitting job or allowance.

[ProbablyClueless]

To be honest with you, that's not particularly good money for anyone in today's economy, and especially not for anyone over the age of 18/living separate from their parents. You can kind of make that work if you live in a low-income part of the country and you have a roommate or two, who you share your expenses with.

[Sour-rose]

I'm being paid $15 an hour on a... biweekly basis? So I don't know if you mean once a month i get $2,000 or that's the salary for... whatever kind of payment. But if it's the former... nah, not enough for me

[Paris13]

If Renting or Have a Mortgage, Not really. An Extra 500 a Week, Helps in This day in Age. xxoo

[Paris13]

Thanks, Gag. xxoo

[BoopBoopBeep]

I made more than that in college. I mean there are countries out there where that WOULD be good money, but not this one.

[zeitgeist057]

Yeah it's a great salary if you live in Cambodia.

[BoopBoopBeep]

@zeitgeist057 Afghanistan's another one...

[Fireguy17]

If you are young, living at home it isn't bad, if you have or want your own place, car etc the no, you'll never make it on that.
You will need to deduct 20ish percent for taxes, etc., so that leaves you with about 1,600 a month.

[docster]

It depends if that's gross pay or net pay? For gross pay, it's kinda low. For net pay it's nice for a single person.

[BCRanger10]

That's about $11.53 per hour (USD). That's not good money at all.

[EricSummer]

It depends on the place. Here in Switzerland it would mean poverty.

[HippieVeganJewslim]

Hat die Schweiz auch Dollar?

[EricSummer]

Man kann das Geld umtauschen. 2000 Dollar sind etwa 1750 Franken und das ist echt nicht viel.
Mais ici à Genève on parle Français.

[Simslover92]

That's kind of low for a month's salary. That's just 24k a year.

[matheus_mb]

It depends. In my country it's not much, even though minimum age is lower than that.

[FunkyMonkee]

That's $12.50 an hour! Sounds like a great deal, to me!

[LiamJHayden]

Depends upon where you live and your expenses, but I my employees start their training at double that amount.

[MysticDevice]

In 2005 to 2009 yeah. But with todays cost of living out of control that just seems low. Better than nothing though.

[Redstang88]

That’s less than my rent. Add a zero and I’d call that good

[HippieVeganJewslim]

Maybe in some countries, it’s better than in others.

[Anonymous]

Depends where you live and the job. It's definitely entry level I'd say though.

[Abdulwahh]

Its decent sounds above average especially for a bachelor

[Anonymous]

depends on the state you live on and your lifestyle

[Sonorous]

Any money is good money.

[Nikki1989]

It is a bit on the low side.

[susie22]

Not at all, that's basically poverty level.

[KateDemee]

I think it would depend where you live?

[Iron_Man]

What country?

[OddBeMe]

That would barely cover rent.

[In_Trance]

Depends what you have to do for the money

[Anonymous]

More than I take home, less than I gross

[Kelly6]

its low