How much does an average Gamestop Employee make?

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Onyxmeth said:

chaospluto said:

Onyxmeth said:

I don't know whether to take this seriously or not. It sounds like a well executed joke post because I'm seriously confused here. Let me answer it both ways.

Joke post: Meh...I've heard better.

Serious: Go to college. Gamestop management can barely support you for life. Forget about being a clerk.

 

If he/she is single and lives in a cheap apartment.  It's very easy to live off Minimum Wage, I know people that live fine that way.  Drive a nice car, have nice stuff, it just takes budgeting your money.

As for me, no way that would suffice.

$7.25 per hour x 32 hours (since a clerk is a part time job, not full time)=$232 a week. Take 10% for taxes so $208.80 a week. I'll round up to $210. So $840 every four weeks.

Rent: $400 (Fair, right? That's pretty low end.)
Gas: $70 (Two fillups a month. Any less than that is unrealistic.)
Electric: $50 (I'm paying three times as much so I figure this will work out correctly. I used to manage about $50 when I had a small one bedroom.)
Food: $200 (This is basically a diet of pasta, cheap shit food, some vegetables and cheap meat. Everything is grocery store bought.)
Water: $20 (I can't remember what my bill was but I'm sure it was in this vicinity.)

So that leaves you with $100 a month and is under the assumption that your car was purchased in total. It's $100 to use for medical services, car maintenance, and entertainment purposes. I suppose it is "possible" to live like this for a short period of time until you hit one single rainy day and your life turns upside down from that first problem that requires money to fix it.

 

To be fair, someone could room with another person and cut his bills in half. So ~$300/month which will get spread pretty thin anyways.

I know how to balance a budget, and I understand personal finances very well. I'm the only person I know who managed to go through college and end up without any debts at all. In fact, I had enough money to buy a new car outright by the time I graduated. If by nice car you mean a 10 year old Honda Accord for ~4.5k then sure, cause that is what I bought. I think it is nice, but I'd never tell someone else I have a "nice" car. Either they are racking up the debt, or your definition of nice is way lower than my definition of nice.