Сколько ты РЕАЛЬНО заработаешь за 1 месяц в Лос-Анджелесе — Transcript

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1. 0:00Hey everyone. Apparently, it's my
2. 0:01destiny to write horror stories about
3. 0:03life in the US just before Halloween,
4. 0:05but what can I do? How much can you
5. 0:07earn in Los Angeles for one month of
6. 0:10work in 2026? Let's figure it out. And,
7. 0:12guys, let's get straight to the point.
8. 0:14Look at this pillow I bought for
9. 0:15Halloween. It's like a spell book from
10. 0:18Target. And let's get straight to the
11. 0:20point: usually, when you come here, you
12. 0:21either don't have the language skills
13. 0:23or don't have them at all. So,
14. 0:24basically, all the job openings I'm
15. 0:26going to list are aimed at those who
16. 0:29are coming here and starting from
17. 0:31scratch to build their lives here. And
18. 0:33you'll see for yourself that the salary
19. 0:36is nowhere near what other bloggers
20. 0:38tell you, who assure you that you can
21. 0:40earn 5-7,000 in California. It's so
22. 0:43easy. So, let's figure it out. Our
23. 0:45first opening is for myself. You wrote
24. 0:47down where you can go. Actually, the
25. 0:49easiest job is a sales assistant in a
26. 0:52regular store, like H&M and so on. To
27. 0:55be clear, I took all the ads from the
28. 0:57well-known job site indit.com. They
29. 1:01will appear here, with all the job
30. 1:03descriptions and hourly rates. So,
31. 1:05first up is H&M. H&M offers its
32. 1:09salespeople $ 17.50 per hour before tax
33. 1:14. Let's do the math. What's our monthly
34. 1:17rate? 168 hours. So, we multiply $
35. 1:201,750 by $ 168. And that gives us, if I
36. 1:23wrote it out, $ 2,940. That's before
37. 1:27tax. Now pay attention. After tax, this
38. 1:30amount comes to $ 2,352. $ 2,352 for a
39. 1:34full month in Los Angeles. It's
40. 1:38impossible to live on that money.
41. 1:39You'll see why at the end of the video.
42. 1:41I'll compare the cost of living. Our
43. 1:45next vacancy is at Home Depp. It's a
44. 1:49fairly well-known supermarket. It's
45. 1:51similar to L'Oréal. So, the cashier at
46. 1:54Home Depp is offered a rate of $ 20 per
47. 1:56hour. Honestly, it's a little higher
48. 1:58than at H&M. We multiply $ 20 per hour
49. 2:02by the standard working hours, and we
50. 2:05get $ 3,360. So, minus the tax, which I
51. 2:09estimate will always vary, but on
52. 2:11average, for a salary like this in
53. 2:12California, because the tax, you should
54. 2:14remember, varies from state to state,
55. 2:16it will be 20%. Therefore, after
56. 2:20deducting the tax, our salary at Home
57. 2:22Depp is $ 2,688. And here's a slightly
58. 2:26off-the-record question. Bloggers who
59. 2:29say that the average salary in
60. 2:31California is $ 5,000-$ 7,000 and
61. 2:32everything is great—why are you doing
62. 2:34this? What $ 7,000? Thousands. You're
63. 2:38talking about a nurse earning $ 7,000.
64. 2:41And that's not even at the start. At
65. 2:43the start, it will be around five. And
66. 2:45there will even be 775008, maybe. And
67. 2:48again, before taxes. And I don’t
68. 2:50understand why you should do this.
69. 2:51Seriously, I don’t understand. Our
70. 2:53next vacancy is with you. And FeedEx is
71. 2:56a transport company. Anyone who
72. 2:58doesn’t want to work as a salesperson
73. 3:00in a clothing store or a building
74. 3:02materials store can go work as a FeedEx
75. 3:04courier or an operator. As I understand
76. 3:06it, in their warehouse. So, their
77. 3:08salary is 18.50. So, we have 3,108 per
78. 3:13month and minus 20%tax, which comes out
79. 3:17to 2486 for a month of work. Besides,
80. 3:22you should also get this job, because
81. 3:23the job market in Los Angeles is pretty
82. 3:25overcrowded. Next up, I don’t know
83. 3:28about everyone else, but my favorite is
84. 3:30IKEA. I adore IKEA. I’m a fan of IKEA
85. 3:32in general. I think I should get a
86. 3:34tattoo with the word IKEA. I can just
87. 3:36come and walk on it for hours and just
88. 3:40walk. So, IKEA is offering us a rate of
89. 3:441991, but to be fair, they round it up,
90. 3:47I think, to twenty. So, $ 20 an hour is
91. 3:50the same. Multiply by 168. 3360 per
92. 3:52month. Starting salary minus taxes, you
93. 3:55get 2688. So, let's move on. How can we
94. 4:00get by without everyone's favorite jobs
95. 4:02as delivery drivers, taxi drivers, and
96. 4:03couriers? I think 70%of us who come
97. 4:07here go into delivery first. Oh, I
98. 4:11won't talk about myself. If you're
99. 4:13smart, you'll understand. Let's say
100. 4:15Vasya, when he started working in
101. 4:17delivery a few years ago, and the
102. 4:19situation was a little different, there
103. 4:21were a lot more orders. They just keep
104. 4:25coming, and you, this Vasya, takes one,
105. 4:28doesn't take one, refuses three orders,
106. 4:31and he could, essentially, choose what
107. 4:33to do. Now the situation is different.
108. 4:36And not only are there no more of them,
109. 4:38there are much fewer of them. There's
110. 4:40not much to choose from, so incomes
111. 4:43have naturally fallen. What's the
112. 4:46advantage of California for delivery?
113. 4:47There's the concept of prob2. And
114. 4:50that's a guaranteed hourly income for
115. 4:54active time. And this thing operates in
116. 4:57California and in the city of Seattle.
117. 4:59I think they recently launched it in
118. 5:01New York. But I could be wrong, but I
119. 5:03think they did in New York. But,
120. 5:04honestly, not much. This helps her.
121. 5:06It's, well, roughly an extra $ 100-150
122. 5:09a week you get as an extra bonus. So,
123. 5:13the popular website Indit, which we're
124. 5:15already familiar with, says that the
125. 5:17average delivery, or rather delivery
126. 5:19salary, is $ 22.66 per hour. And this
127. 5:24is a very important point. And the
128. 5:26situation, uh, is not entirely
129. 5:28clear-cut. On the one hand, it's
130. 5:30incredibly little, because you have to
131. 5:33pay for gas and a car. At the same time
132. 5:37, if you live in America, especially in
133. 5:38cities like Los Angeles, you most
134. 5:40likely have a car anyway. You'll still
135. 5:43spend money on gas and a car. But the
136. 5:46tax will be, well, less than 20%, of
137. 5:48course, because at the end of the year,
138. 5:51when we file taxes before April, you
139. 5:54can write off a lot of your income.
140. 5:58There are different tax deduction
141. 6:00systems, but on average, the tax is
142. 6:02roughly 10%of your income. So, after
143. 6:06deducting the tax, you might be left
144. 6:08with 3,426 rubles for delivery, but
145. 6:12honestly, no one works delivery as a
146. 6:16full-time job. Delivery people usually
147. 6:19work much more, so on average, you can
148. 6:23earn about 4-4,500 rubles. But, of
149. 6:26course, you won't see much of life.
150. 6:27You'll be either driving or waiting for
151. 6:29orders all the time. The most
152. 6:31interesting situation is developing
153. 6:33with taxis in Los Angeles. We've
154. 6:35started to see a lot of driverless cars
155. 6:38like Waymo. And the guys I talk to all
156. 6:40complain that taxi orders have fallen
157. 6:43so much that many are leaving, or, if
158. 6:45not taking a regular job, then
159. 6:47combining it with delivery. According
160. 6:50to official data, the average taxi
161. 6:53driver's salary today is 3,770 rubles.
162. 6:58Well, accordingly, with delivery, I
163. 7:00think it was a little more. But you
164. 7:02also have to understand that with a
165. 7:04taxi, it seems to me, you drive, well,
166. 7:06more miles. Oh, but the work itself is
167. 7:08easier, right? You don't get out of the
168. 7:11car, you don't look for addresses or
169. 7:13walk around the store if you work like
170. 7:14a shopper, and you just drive up to the
171. 7:16person, they get in the car themselves,
172. 7:18get out themselves, and get out at the
173. 7:19right place. The only thing is, of
174. 7:23course, you'll have to watch your
175. 7:25figure even more strictly, because you
176. 7:27won't be doing any physical activity at
177. 7:29all. It seems to me that working as a
178. 7:31taxi driver and in delivery, especially
179. 7:33when you've just arrived, is a great
180. 7:34idea. You can work there without much
181. 7:37language skills, if you know how to
182. 7:39drive, and you can start working almost
183. 7:41immediately; you don't need interviews,
184. 7:43approvals, and so on. The problem with
185. 7:45this job is that you get stuck there.
186. 7:47You can get stuck there, and before you
187. 7:48know it, two, three, or even four years
188. 7:50have passed. And nothing in your life
189. 7:53will change. It's not some kind of
190. 7:55career ladder. You don't accumulate,
191. 7:57you know, some kind of pension savings.
192. 8:00You simply can't save them because
193. 8:02there's not enough money. Let's be
194. 8:03honest. It's one thing when your
195. 8:06employer saves for you or forcibly, yes
196. 8:08, takes money from your salary at your
197. 8:10direction. But it's quite another thing
198. 8:13when you earn your own salary, you have
199. 8:15bills, and you take it and put it into
200. 8:17a pension fund. But honestly, not
201. 8:20everyone can do that. So, at the
202. 8:23initial stage, yes, why not? But, of
203. 8:25course, the people I talk to, a lot of
204. 8:27them have either gone to college or
205. 8:29started looking for a permanent job.
206. 8:31Because even if you're earning a little
207. 8:33less at the start, no one's stopping
208. 8:36you from combining even your regular
209. 8:38job with, say, delivery or taxi work,
210. 8:40if you really want to or don't have
211. 8:42enough money. But honestly, it's better
212. 8:45to stay in that job full-time, going to
213. 8:47McDonald's. At least there you can—
214. 8:49well, I think this is my opinion, but
215. 8:51at least you can somehow work your way
216. 8:53up to manager. And since we're talking
217. 8:57about fast food, McDonald's and so on,
218. 8:59it's not just fast food here; big
219. 9:01chains like that are all over the
220. 9:03country, they usually pay minimum wage.
221. 9:07In Republican states, there's no
222. 9:08minimum wage as such. Well, it's sort
223. 9:10of there, like, say, $ 7 an hour. But
224. 9:13it's clear that no one's going to pay
225. 9:16you $ 7. Many democratic states, I
226. 9:18think even all of them, have a minimum
227. 9:20wage. But California has now introduced
228. 9:24a $ 20 an hour requirement—that's the
229. 9:27minimum wage for fast food workers. So,
230. 9:30basically, if you work there, I don't
231. 9:32know, in Hompa, in a supermarket,
232. 9:34there's nothing stopping them from
233. 9:36paying you the minimum wage, like $ 17
234. 9:38or $ 18 an hour. That won't be possible
235. 9:40at McDonald's anymore, for example.
236. 9:42Their rate is $ 20 an hour. But then
237. 9:44again, after taxes, that comes out to $
238. 9:462,688. Well, frankly, it's really sad.
239. 9:52And, therefore, after a shift at
240. 9:54McDonald's, many people get in their
241. 9:55cars and start working, delivering from
242. 9:57McDonald's, because on $ 268,
243. 9:59especially if you live alone, you, well
244. 10:01, you won't survive; you won't have
245. 10:03enough money for anything. So, let's do
246. 10:07some rough calculations. So, our salary
247. 10:09is $ 2,650. Let's round it up to $
248. 10:113,000. Let's assume you occasionally
249. 10:13work part-time in delivery. That leaves
250. 10:17us with $ 3,000 at the beginning of
251. 10:18next month. We pay an average of $
252. 10:211,800 for rent, then we pay $ 500—
253. 10:24well, for some it's $ 500, for others $
254. 10:26600—for food. But, really, that's
255. 10:29assuming you're alone; $ 600 will buy
256. 10:31you a decent meal, basically. Then we
257. 10:33have $ 400 for your car, $ 200 for car
258. 10:36insurance. On average, your employer
259. 10:38will charge you about $ 150 for health
260. 10:41insurance. The rest will be covered.
261. 10:44Well, again, that's if you're lucky,
262. 10:46but usually, at large companies, they
263. 10:47pay the lion's share of your health
264. 10:49insurance. Also, don't forget to
265. 10:51roughly subtract $ 50 for
266. 10:52communications. And that's the amount
267. 10:54we're left with at the end of the month
268. 10:56. Once again, this isn't a channel
269. 10:57about the horrors of life in the US.
270. 10:59It's just that when I hear these
271. 11:00figures of $ 5,000-$ 7,000 in
272. 11:02California, it means you're starting
273. 11:04from scratch. Of course, the numbers
274. 11:06tell a different story. I told you them
275. 11:08today. I'm not saying you shouldn't
276. 11:10come here or that, oh my God,
277. 11:11everything is so bad here. No,
278. 11:13everything is fine here, but you just
279. 11:15need to be prepared for difficulties,
280. 11:17and for the salary to be $ 3,000, and
281. 11:19maybe even $ 2,500 at the start. You
282. 11:21just need to move on a little bit, to
283. 11:23develop. And if you're ready or you're
284. 11:24already here, then you need to think
285. 11:26about something else, at least starting
286. 11:28with college. Community colleges exist,
287. 11:30and there are community colleges in
288. 11:32every city in this country. Nothing
289. 11:35stops you from going there and choosing
290. 11:37. They'll even help you choose a
291. 11:39practical specialty, a profession, from
292. 11:41dental assistant to, I don't know,
293. 11:43welder or electrician, and little by
294. 11:45little, at least half a step at a time,
295. 11:47you'll start moving toward your
296. 11:49American dream. If you liked the video,
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299. 11:54the next video, but it's mostly good
300. 11:55news for me, so I hope you'll be happy
301. 11:57for me. Until next time. Bye.