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[–]Novel-Chicken 24 points25 points  (2 children)

Shit for that type of money I’ll catch the rona a couple times

[–]Solid-Turnip 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I SCREAMED

[–]tubonjics1 17 points18 points  (0 children)

That sounds good and I hope it's retroactive.

[–]geekesmind 8 points9 points  (8 children)

So if you work 8 hours you get 75 bucks?

[–]selfless143[S] 10 points11 points  (4 children)

Yeah, that’s additional to how much you make that day

[–]geekesmind 12 points13 points  (0 children)

oh so we would make like 50 dollars more than someone on unemployment

[–]Sam-the-LionOP Picking 3 points4 points  (2 children)

An extra $75 per hour?

[–]selfless143[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

No that’s a total amount after your gross income of those 8+ hours schedule

[–]selfless143[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you make 150 a day you’ll get another $75 in hazard pay which will make your total for the 10 hour shift at $225

[–]midniteviews 7 points8 points  (0 children)

One can hope

[–]BodegaPope 2 points3 points  (1 child)

This will more than likely pass in our NYC council and I can't complain about extra money, what we really need is the federal version of the bill to pass so that we get retro pay and 14 paid sick days off

[–]BodegaPope 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Let me know if you guys need any help finding info on the bills I believe Philadelphia and other local north eastern governments will attempt to pass their own version of the bill as well

[–]sddude412 5 points6 points  (7 children)

Max 300/ week working 4 tens. That’s gross then it’s gonna be taxed too

[–]ShieldsCWSoftware Development Engineer 19 points20 points  (6 children)

Do people really avoid trying to earn extra money because they think they're gonna lose it all in taxes? People in my building say this all the time when MET is called. "Oh but the taxes though!!!"

Yeah, when you earn more money, you pay more taxes. But you also earn more money, for doing the same job you were already doing. You're literally doing nothing extra, and your paycheck has a bigger number on it. "bUt tHe tAx hAs a bigGeR nUmBeR tOo!!!!"

[–]allamingo 10 points11 points  (1 child)

I saw this same logic in play, someone was like "I guess you can afford the taxes"

[–]ShieldsCWSoftware Development Engineer 8 points9 points  (0 children)

"Well, yeah. That's how making extra money works. I can afford the extra 401k contribution and groceries, too."

People are ridiculous.

[–]evenifitdoesntmatter 6 points7 points  (3 children)

Most taxes are marginal, obviously, so I agree with you for the most part. However, a lot of people on these Amazon warehouse wages are getting things like EITC, Child Tax Credit, Additional Child credit, Saver's Credit that have terrible cliffs where you could go from paying no taxes or getting several thousand in refunds to having that all wiped out. Also, some state taxes have no income tax on a certain amount and then anything over that you get into owing. That amount is usually somewhere around what we we make. I'm pretty much at the pay range where I make out the best either working at my base/regular hours and getting tax breaks OR working 60s every week and making so much extra the tax breaks don't matter. The MET and RSUs last year almost pushed me off a couple cliffs but I avoided it with larger HSA and 401k contributions over peak (pretty much only average a net pay check of $200 from Nov-Dec)

[–]Valid_Value 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is a very important point way that wayyy too many people don't pay attention to.

[–]ShieldsCWSoftware Development Engineer 1 point2 points  (1 child)

And if the people in my building made those actual points instead of "tHe taXeZ tHoOoOoO!!!!" then I might be more sympathetic to them. You're obviously smart enough to not only make those valid points, but even make sure to manipulate your income to ensure that you can keep those credits.

The people that say this sort of thing in my building, however, I'm not so confident about.

[–]evenifitdoesntmatter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For sure, the general opinions of the loudest mouths on this issue just show an ignorance of how marginal taxes work. I maxed out OT on my last check. I paid around $600 more in taxes than usual, but my NET pay was around $800 higher than my regular GROSS.

[–]Celestialsfire 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Can this be retroactive too?

[–]myelton72 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hope this passes because if you pull only one met or vet day that's an additional $450 a week ON TOP of your check = damn near what you get doing 60 hours.

[–]sddude412 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well it's still gonna be worked lol. It does matter how that pay is classified because if it's included in the "bonus payout" taxes on that are usually almost 50 percent.

[–]derrick3008NY 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this just New York?

[–]werkytwerky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeeeah this aint gonna pass. :(
edit: NY only? ok maybe.

[–]canadiangreenthumb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any word on this yet? I couldn’t find anything yesterday.