Hi guys. If you received opportunity to work in the USA, how much minimum annual salary will you consider to accept?

Assuming the company pays for:
1) house complete with utitlity bills (electricity, water, internet, cable tv)
2) car, gas and the maintenance
3) insurance for medical and dental
4) annual travel expenses (let's assume the amount around 3 - 5k usd)

What will be the minimum annual salary you expect to live comfortably with family? For fair assessment, let's divide to two areas; the outskirt and the city. And the job level is equivalent to what a normal executive do in Malaysia (junior to middle management).

If you have experience working in the USA, care to share your insights?

what job did u get?

I assume not less than USD80k per annum if you include family.

And work place is where? New York?

Let's consider Atlanta, Georgia.

Including those benefits mentioned above?

If you are single, how much will be the minimum?

if all paid by company you just need 12K p.a salary because 1K per month for food you can eat till vomit.
biggest chunk house, bills, and insurance itself around 3K, if paid by company you no need to worry.
what kind of job offer that pay everything? what type of visa you get?

50k USD for so-so life. 100k USD would be ideal.

Understood.

Received an offer but the salary they offered isn't what I expected. It's just falls short of the state's median salary i googled. Plus with the higher taxes >20% 😬😬😬

Good news is they cover those things. If it is like what you said then considered still OK.

Manufacturing field. Visa i don't know yet.

Thanks for your input 😁👍

if you dont want, can consider share with us ? we willing take the leap

Check for (3) ... whether is it 100% or the co. is only covering 70%

Most co. that offer insurance is only covering 70%

Also there's multiple choice of insurance option, low-co, high deductible, etc.

For a single person with housing and transported provided, even with 60k you will be well off.
As a rough estimate, expect to deduct about 30%~35% from your monthly pay cheque, that would be your nett.

US looks at the total compensation package as a whole. You will need to add the benefits that you received as well to the salary they offered then only compare it with the median salary.

Understood. If like this then the package definitely sounds quite good. It's just have no idea yet regarding the daily expenses there (eg. Food, groceries, entertainment, etc.). I never went to overseas for studies or working previously.

Reg insurance, they haven't feedback the actual package yet but they mentioned it's the same package covered to all current employees. Maybe not so bad.

Tax wise is it same like malaysia where we have MTD and need to do filing after year end?

Opportunity of lifetime i guess, most likely will accept

US Tax can get very complicated. You can file it yourself or you can get someone to do it for you. You can request HR / Payroll to withhold a certain percentage of wages for taxes and then when you file your taxes, you either pay for the shortfall or get back the surplus.

Check out https://www.walmart.com/ and you will know how to budget your expenses.

One more thing, make sure you get a social security number (SSN) (equivalent to our IC here, but never ever share your SSN), not sure if your co. will help you or guide on how to do it.
But without SSN you can't file taxes, can't open bank account, can't get credit card

Wish you all the best !

Atlanta is nice place , cheap to fly everywhere else and it's a major hub too !

$50k basic

you should include income tax, major killer of one's salary esp. USA

U will get H1 visa and be careful with it coz it's provided by your employer, once you get fired, you will also lost your legal stay status and automatically gets deported with immediate effect.

Thanks bro. There's a lot I still have to learn about living in the States. Gotta get my visa approved first. 😁

Understood.

Noted with thanks for the info. I guess that's the most fitting in this case.

I disagree, in my decade plus living and working in the US, I never compare salaries plus benefits, only the raw salaries. The state median salary you're seeing is the pretax salary and you take it as it is.

When comparing cost of living, don't forget to take into account hidden costs eg. sales tax (Atlanta is 8.9% which is even higher than NYC 8.875%), insurance for drivers which depends a lot on your age, location of your car etc. and taxable benefits. You may be $30-50k worth of benefits in the form of rent, car etc, but depending on how it's calculated, these could be treated as cash and you get a tax deduction on your paycheck. Health insurance for you and the family is not negotiable, don't be caught without it.

In all honesty push for a higher salary not including the benefits. $50+ k is not worth the move