I'm watching the episode where The Connors all go to that fancy restaurant with the inheritance money they got from a dead aunt. It always confused me how they were shocked that Darlene got offered a $500/week job. That's only $26,000/year. Why did they make such a big deal out of it?
shareI am assuming where they live, it was considered a lot.
Actually sad, because showed after years of work, Dan and Roseanne had never made even that.
That is what I made right out of college (in the early 2000's, to gain experience) and I wasn't proud of the salary. Lol
well take look at how they are in this instance... they get a windfall -- no matter how much-- and they go out to a fancy restaurant and blow either it all or a good chunk of it. that is what families like Roseanne's do. the money they have they don't spend wisely.
back then, 17,000 was considered poverty level for a family of four. her making 26 grand a year at her age, only having to spend it/save it for herself... phenomenal.
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The dinner never bothered me. 500 dollars isn't a lot. When they got all that money and wasted it on Disney World. WTF? Not only was it expensive, no one seemed to be having fun except Darlene (which she wouldn't have really) and the two toddlers. They wasted thousands of dollars to make three people happy. They could have gone to another country and had a real trip.
shareThe other factor that doesn't make sense is: Jackie was a cop, AND a truck driver, and they make good money—especially the latter, especially if they drive long distance—which she mentioned she did more than once.
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uh... the point is, she surely musta had close to the same wage as that ($500/wk).
sharei think you made your point by having my post deleted!
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Hm, I didn't do that. I wonder what happened? Maybe someone else did. Trust me, I'm not that passionate about this lol.
sharelia!
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It's hard to tell if someone's sincere/not sincere through words on a screen lol, so I'll just reiterate to make sure: check my track record—I've never deleted someone's comment on this board just cuz they disagreed w/ me. Least of which, for such a banal topic! Ha ;)
sharecheck my track record—I've never deleted someone's comment on this board just cuz they disagreed w/ me
It says "post deleted", right? At least for a while...
shareyou said I could check YOUR TRACK RECORD and apparently you think your profile page mentions whether you have had posts deleted or not.
that is what I am confused with you about. that is impossible.
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Yeah, when Jackie was talking about becoming a cop, she stated that she could make $3,000 a month. I don't know what she was making as a truck driver, but surely it was enough to make her less than impressed with Darlene's job offer. Just sloppy writing- or more over the top effort to remind the audience that the Conner family was no longer lower middle class, but sinking into knuckle dragging white trash territory.
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for cop wages, see my post below.
after a couple years in a factory, I was making about same than my father had around the twenty year mark in early/mid 90s. and that's for a suburb of a metropolitan area, which would have way more pay than a small town in Illinoiz, fictional or not.
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But we aren't talking "big money". Just enough to have been competitive with what Darlene was making several year's later. Or least enough to NOT act like it was some rich person's salary.
I remember watching this episode when it first aired, and even then, it didn't seem like a lot. A decent starting salary.
You have to remember this was 1993 or thereabouts.
Money went further then.
Also, in today's dollars:
$26,000 in 1993
is
$43,300 in 2015
So, to poor/lower middle class people like the Conners, a salary like $43,000 is a lot of money. Especially for an entry-level position.
I agree with the poster who said that it was really sad that they never made more money, despite their hard work.
I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus.
Didn't he discover America?
Penfold, shush.
at that point in time, that was a GREAT starting salary.
In fact, I remember seeing one of my father's paychecks as a cop in StL in late 80s. 5-10 years later, after I finally got out of fast food, I was making the same amount after a few years. He had been on the job almost twenty at that point.
so we had been living off the same income for six people, plus farm expenses (-30 acres, couple horses, dwindling head of durocs/fowl). then 200/mo for child support for my sisters after the divorce in 90, but one I had to write up the release for him when she turned 18. Mom just wanted minimum to help make ends meet for her minimum wage job.
by that time, I had cheap apartment, used car paid for, basic bills and I was barely making ends meet. and no on disability, I'm making less than poverty wages (13k/year), so forget a lot of stuff I'd like to do. like getting a PT job that I can't physically handle.
btw, I still never made that much a year. neither did dad by the time he retired after 30 years on the job.
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That's because 1) the Conners weren't exactly rolling in money, and 2) that's an excellent salary in the mid-90s for someone with no job experience, no high school degree, AND no college degree. I saw someone else did the math, and like they said, that'd be like today if if someone in their 2nd or 3rd year of college got offered a $43,000/yr job as a starting salary, again, without even a high school diploma.
[Side note - doesn't that bother anyone else that Darlene always did poorly in school because she didn't apply herself, but got into college at 16 despite not even being close to graduating early from high school? I guess the school took admission partly based on portfolio, but what college would take someone with no high school degree, poor grades, who would be on a scholarship just because they had a good portfolio?]
Haha. THere's a whole recent thread about Darlene's application to college.
But in regards to her salary. Yes, it's a good starting salary for a soon-to-be college graduate. But they were all acting STUNNED. It's not like she was making six figures. And as others have pointed out, surely Jackie made more than that between her well-paying jobs in the past. Even when working at Wellman making $8/hour in 1988 wouldn't have been that far behind that this 1996 salary was so OMG level. I also find it hard to believe Dan never made that as a drywall contractor or working as a city mechanic manager.
Like so many have said, at this point in the show, they were clearly just trying to make them sound poorer than they actually were.
they were clearly just trying to make them sound poorer than they actually were.
It all depends on the family lol. I will turn 29 years old this year...my sister and I were raised by a single parent. My mom only pulled 8-10,000 a year for the majoroty of my childhood. And i got laid off from my job this year and the only new one i can find is a part-time one that is $100-$125 a week after taxes are taken out. So i would gladly be welcoming a $500 a week job now lmao
shareI bring home $1200 week
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