Being underpaid at work isn't just about stagnant wages vs inflation. It's about wages staying flat while required expenses multiplied. Minimum wage: hasn't increased in 16 years. Number of bills you're expected to pay: tripled. 1990s worker expenses: rent, utilities, food, transportation, maybe cable. 2026 worker expenses: rent (doubled), utilities, food (groceries up 30%), transportation, phone ($100/month), phone replacement cycle ($1,000 every 2 years), internet, streaming services (Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, HBO, Peacock = $80+/month), cloud storage, printer subscription, productivity software, AI subscriptions, health insurance ($600+/month), car payment ($734 average), car insurance (up 50% in 5 years), student loans (ballooned to unmanageable), childcare ($1,500+/month). Your wages didn't account for half those expenses existing. You're underpaid at work not just because your employer is greedy (though that's true). You're underpaid because the cost structure of being alive in America has fundamentally changed while compensation stayed static. The American solution: get a better job, side hustle, budget harder. The actual solution: take the same income to a place where half those expenses don't exist. No $600/month health insurance (healthcare is $20/visit). No $1,500/month childcare (costs $200 or is culturally handled differently). No $734 car payment (public transit works, or cars cost $8,000 not $40,000). Being underpaid at work in America vs being paid the same amount abroad = completely different financial realities. Link in bio when you're ready to make your "low" wages work by changing where you spend them. 🆘🇺🇸 #TikTokCreatorSearchInsightsIncentive
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you are underpaid at work for a reason that you aren't even considering. I know we like to talk about inflation being the cause or wage stagnation because the federal minimum wage hasn't been increased in 16 years and corporate greed and all of those things are true. But additionally, the problem is wages aren't keeping up with new expenses that you have. And what I mean by that is 10 years ago, nobody needed to have subscription services for all the things in the world that you now have subscription services to. You need subscription services for your freaking printer at home. You need it to be able to access music. You need it to be able to access any AI. You need it for Netflix. You need it for your cell phone. All of these different subscriptions are new expenses. So as wages have gone up and they just consider that your bills are the same, basic housing, food, education, those kinds of things, there's now new expenses. You have childcare costs that didn't use to exist. You have student loan payments that really didn't use to exist. You have expenses like cell phones that are a thousand freaking dollars that you have on a payment plan. And the other technology you have in your house like a laptop is probably on a payment plan. Plus all of those subscriptions. So all of these new bills together combined with the things that have exploded like healthcare costs and rent is what's making it so that you are not getting paid enough. You're not getting paid enough because of the combination of all of these things. But the question is what are you going to do about it? Because these things now exist. You do have to pay for all of these things in order to basically just survive because you need a phone and the reality is phones are a thousand dollars. So how are you going to fix this problem? You can either create more income so that you can survive off of all of the things that you need to pay each month or you can drastically cut the majority of your expenses. And that's what I help with. The way that you can cut those expenses is by moving abroad. Your rent payment does not need to look like what your rent payment looks like now. Plus your healthcare costs can go down dramatically to next to nothing by moving to a place that has socialized medicine. Those expenses plus food and the fact that they don't have to pay for their higher education all can equal a very different budget for yourself and your children if you have children that are going to go to college in the future. That can be the answer. Moving abroad instead of just staying stuck in a place where you just don't get paid enough.
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