… try deduct $ 60,000 from that .
Recently, Fox News host Jesse Watters received backlash after messing up some very basic math and insulting fast food workers in the process.
Fox News ' Jesse Watters : " If you ’re making $ 20 an hour to work at a libertine - nutrient eating house … Is that six figures?“pic.twitter.com / qe59BWA6je
While speaking with Patrick Bet-David on hisPBDpodcast, Watters and Bet-David discussed Californiaraising its minimum wage to $20 an hour for fast food workers— a decision Watters called “so crazy.”
After being asked his opinion, Watters poses: “If you’re making $20 an hour to work at a fast-food restaurant, is that six figures?”
He’s quickly corrected by Bet-David, who says it’s about “40K a year full-time.” Which, ya know, is A LOT less than the $100,000 Watters initially thought.
But that flub didn’t stop Watters from pressing forward. He says, “OK $40K a year…and then if your husband or wife is also there, you’re making $100,000 as a family — both working at McDonald’s.”
Obviously, 40 + 40 does not equal 100. So Bet-David corrects him again: “80 grand.”
Even though Watters tried and failed twice at getting the numbers to fit his apparent $100,000 narrative, he still pressed on. “That’s crazy,” he said in response to a family of fast-food workers making $80,000 before taxes. “That is crazy because that job really doesn’t require much.”
It’s important to note:
Someone making $ 40,000 a year in California bring home about$32,000 after taxes , or about $ 2,666 a calendar month . Meanwhile , according to Zillow , the state’smedian rent sits at $ 2,790 a calendar month .
As you can imagine, people were not pleased after watching Watters’s take. Some didn’t like how he kept adjusting the situation to make the numbers work — even though they never did.
He could n’t make his point with one person working at McDonald ’s , earning an inadequate $ 40 K a twelvemonth , so he had to change it to a two income family .
Others couldn’t fathom how out of touch someone has to be to think $20 an hour will earn someone six figures.
It ’s impossible to sympathize , or think understandably about , the US economy if you believe someone make $ 20 an hour is earning six pattern , as Jesse Watters did.https://t.co/MDH8koZx1w
And even more pointed out that the truth — that fast food workers provide a daily service that we all have likely used at some point and benefitted from…
It ’s not 6 figure , it ’s about $ 40k . The thing is , that McDonalds worker allow for a religious service , and is beneficial to society . Jesse Watters makes an estimated $ 5 million each year , and has no discernible traits that assist anyone besides himself.https://t.co/EdQtXMG8En
…while Watters — who isrumoredto make around $5 million a year — spent this day speaking incorrect math to a camera.
Proving yet again why you should n’t take financial advice from Fox . Here is Jesse Watters saying 20 / hr ( ~40 K before taxes ) is " 6 human body " and is too much to work in fast solid food while he sits there getting basic math wrong and makes 5 million / yr.#ncpol#makeitmakesensehttps://t.co / li1JtPPdn2
