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Kendall And Casey Podcast

The perfect salary

Kendall And Casey Podcast

Kendall And Casey

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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0:00.0

Okay, do you have any idea what most people say is the perfect salary, the average perfect salary that Americans would say would make them financially happy?

0:10.9

$53 billion.

0:11.9

No, it's a reasonable number.

0:14.1

I'm not talking like, I want to make a million dollars.

0:16.2

Well, this depends on where you live, right?

0:17.5

Because $100,000 in Indiana can give you a middle class life that

0:21.5

probably couldn't stretch nearly as far and say New York. Right. Or California. Here in Indiana,

0:26.4

well, this is in Indiana. The average perfect salary that would make you feel financially happy

0:31.5

is much higher than what the actual average salary is. I'd say, but it's not. I'll say 150,000.

0:37.0

It's much lower. Oh, it's lower. 74,000. Oh. That's the average perfect salary that people say, yeah, that puts me in a good place. Yeah. And, you know, a big part of it is how much work do you want to do? Like, I don't want to do work. I've worked enough. That's why I like this job, right? There's other

0:55.9

jobs I could go to probably and make more money, but I have someone who does all the work for me,

1:00.8

puts up with me, I'm out the door at noon, and I can go home and take my nap and watch my

1:05.6

stories. I mean, I'm not getting, I'm not getting rid of that. I, you know, I think it depends on what level of motivation you're at in your life, how much you want to work.

1:16.5

And there's a lot of people who make more money, but they're not necessarily happy in their career,

1:21.0

but they like the money more than they like the happiness in the workplace.

1:24.1

Speaking of working, more than a third of Americans are actively looking for a new job right now.

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