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fremenator t1_j7d94jk wrote

Reply to comment by xenolingual in What does Worcester need? by AnteaterEastern2811

This plus they need higher paying jobs overall. It's not a great system when so much of the city has to travel to Boston everyday just to make a buck. For people like me in my industry, there's lots of work we could do in Worcester but there's no point in working there when I can make triple by going to Boston.

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xenolingual t1_j7dd6ro wrote

Right? Such a good point. I'd love to be able to do what I do locally and more directly contribute to the Worcester economy.

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HistoricalSecurity77 t1_j7e1csm wrote

There are lots of high paying jobs here. Between the hospitals and biotech, plus the higher edu institutions…

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fremenator t1_j7f6mpl wrote

That's a fair point! I only know about my field and the pay is way lower here than in Boston.

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HistoricalSecurity77 t1_j7ff4jm wrote

I grew up here in the city, and my parents didn’t make all that much. Most of my childhood/early teen years their household income wasn’t above $$85k, but (back then in the 90s and early 2000s) that was plenty to live a decent middle-class life. Today, teachers with their Masters and a few years in will earn $80k alone. Most Worcester fire fighters and cops make around $100,000 or more with OT. While that won’t go too far with inflation, there are indeed lots of jobs that will pay at least $60k plus. Insurance industry is big here as well.

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Tamanduas t1_j8vzb93 wrote

Yeah becomes a Worcester cop they make bank.

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SmartassRemarks t1_j7ihvh9 wrote

This is absolutely huge, and is the core of everything. The city will draw all sorts of business if there is a larger upper middle class and upper class.

By the way, what field do you work in? I work in software, and there are practically no software jobs in Worcester worth half a shit, and anyone working outside Cambridge and Boston makes half what they could be making inside the city.

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fremenator t1_j7ijd9b wrote

Government (not trying to get into more detail for doxxing)

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