This morning I was reading the fabulous Dooce, and noticed that she linked to the website RulesOfThumb.org. RulesOfThumb take any subject or issue and then give you a list of "rules of thumb" about whatever it is you're looking for. They have some really interesting ones about dieting ("Seventy calories are burned per mile, regardless of speed.") and body language ("If a person will not hold eye contact when you try to explain something to them, they don't believe what you're saying."). However, when reading through their rules about jobs, I cam across one called: "The 80's rule for weighing your salary":
"If a single career woman is not making her age times $1,000 in annual salary at age 30, she should either change careers or marry a career man making $80,000 or better and become a wife and mother. She can then live comfortably and afford one additional child for each $20,000 per year he makes over $80,000."
~Barbara Greenlee B.S., R.N., Ship's Nurse, Kauai, Hawaii
Now, I realize that this was a rule of thumb 20 plus years ago. But as the wage gap is still certainly an issue, can any of us actually say that our salary equals our age times 1,000?
