Highest salaries in Argentina?

You guys have a funny idea about how much people earn.
First- only 1.5% of Americans make $200k or more. And maybe 5% of households have a combined 2 or 3 salaries adding up to 200k. Not very many people.

And, studies show, the vast majority live in a very few metropolitan areas- primarily NYC, SF, DC, and LA and Seattle. Add smaller amounts in places like Houston and Chicago. Very very few americans in podunk make 200k or more.
 
You guys have a funny idea about how much people earn.
First- only 1.5% of Americans make $200k or more. And maybe 5% of households have a combined 2 or 3 salaries adding up to 200k. Not very many people.

And, studies show, the vast majority live in a very few metropolitan areas- primarily NYC, SF, DC, and LA and Seattle. Add smaller amounts in places like Houston and Chicago. Very very few americans in podunk make 200k or more.

Sure not everyone makes $200k but if you're a working professional like a lawyer at a prestigious firm, in house counsel at big company, doctor, you definitely will.

And someone with a lower tier job making 100k could potentially have greater purchasing power than someone in Argentina. A house with yard is 100k, mortgage easy to come by, a you can lease a new Kia for $200.

Argentina comes out ahead on health care and education, and potentially food depending upon on what you eat.
 
Sure not everyone makes $200k but if you're a working professional like a lawyer at a prestigious firm, in house counsel at big company, doctor, you definitely will.

And someone with a lower tier job making 100k could potentially have greater purchasing power than someone in Argentina. A house with yard is 100k, mortgage easy to come by, a you can lease a new Kia for $200.

Argentina comes out ahead on health care and education, and potentially food depending upon on what you eat.
you are living in a dream world.
a "lower tier" job makes $15k in the USA. The median HOUSEHOLD (not personal salary) in the USA is currently around 40 grand. 50% of the people make LESS than this. So a lower tier job makes 40 grand or less. At that salary level, a mortgage is far from "easy to come by"- usually they want 20% down.
Where, exactly, are these $100k houses? The median home price in my state is $387.000 - thats for the entire state.
the median house price for the USA currently is $286,000.
Sure, there are some places where you can still buy a house for 100 grand- places where people are leaving, because wages are like seven bucks an hour.

Most lawers in the USA, as in 90% or so of the lawyers, make 100k or less. Most doctors in rural areas make less. In big cities, specialists make more- and their houses cost a million or more. And they are very few in number.

I have bought and sold houses and commercial buildings for 40 years now- not professionally, but a few times- 100k houses are 80s prices everywhere I have lived.

200k salaries are very rare. only 30% of households in the USA make 100k- and thats usually 2 incomes.

Argentina, obviously, is worse.

When you speculate on 200k salaries in Argentina, you are talking about a tiny tiny percentage of the population.

Most argentines, and most US citizens, are barely making do on less than a 1/4 of that.
 
My interest in this discussion it to wonder who would think that earning 200k in Argentina is common, and why they care about the tenth of one percent of the population that earns that much, usually because of inherited wealth. Argentina's problems are much more centered on the sixty percent or so of the population that earns $5,000 US or LESS per annum. But hey, thats just me- I never even watched Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.
 
My interest in this discussion it to wonder who would think that earning 200k in Argentina is common, and why they care about the tenth of one percent of the population that earns that much, usually because of inherited wealth. Argentina's problems are much more centered on the sixty percent or so of the population that earns $5,000 US or LESS per annum. But hey, thats just me- I never even watched Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.

Obviously $200,000 USD is an extraordinary income in Argentina -- and a huge income in the US as well. Somehow the discussion got tangled into all sorts of other issues.
 
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