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23 Jun 12:17pm

Filed under: Hilda, Money, Salary, Wayne Swan, Work

You can list things that “satisfy” on one hand. Snickers bars, finishing a crossword, running a half-marathon after months of training. Your first drink on a Friday afternoon, weekends…

Well, $10 million seems a pretty good place to start.

But no matter who you are, and what you earn, “salary” will never fall into this category. Money in the hand, is by definition, money to burn; and for this reason, you can never earn enough.

Strange then, that researchers at the Household Income and Labour Dynamics Association think it’s perfectly reasonable to have come up with a figure that suggests otherwise.

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Lloyd Copper says:

11:55pm | 25/06/11

Wonder what the people who live on $1 a day would think of this article? Read more »
Ben C says:

03:54pm | 24/06/11

And I thought I was being ripped off, fully qualified account with 6 years experience earning just under $50k. But, like you, I never grew up in a rich household, we’ve always struggled to get by, still do, but we get by nonetheless. As a result, I have always been… Read more »

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