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She Works Hard For the Money - Donna Summer
For your benefit I have calculated the cost-effectiveness of marriage.
For purposes of this exercise we are using the assumption that a wife costs 50% of after tax income. I am also making the assumption that a wife provides sex 3 times per week for aproximately half an hour.
Using Nevada prices averaging around $300 for a prostitute per 30 minute sexual encounter I calculate the cost of sex to be $46,800. Rounding this to $50,000 a year we can conclude that for anyone with an income below $100,000 a year a wife's sexual value alone makes marriage cost effective.
However, it also has to be taken into account that a wife provides either additional income, or domestic service to the household. Estimating the costs of a domestic worker a wife also provides at least $30,000 in the form of income or domestic work. ($10 wage rate x 8 hours a day 365 days a year = $29200).
Therefore for anyone earning an income below $160,000 a year marriage is probably cost effective.
For all others marriage is cost effective if:
(income - $100,000)/2 < wifes income
This is fairly positive for marriage. For example a man expecting to earn $250,000 per anum would be rational to marry any woman with an earning power of $75,000 of more per anum. So it is probably only those earning very large sums who would be ill advised to marry. For the majority (earning less than $160,000) marriage is likely to be cost effective.
It must be remembered that this is AFTER TAX income. So in actuality the before tax income would have to be closer to $250,000 for marriage to be uneconomical.
If, however, you are expecting to earn several hundred thousand a year, and believe marriage would be uneconomical, I would suggest Fernley Nevada, Lyon County as a good place to live.
For purposes of this exercise we are using the assumption that a wife costs 50% of after tax income. I am also making the assumption that a wife provides sex 3 times per week for aproximately half an hour.
Using Nevada prices averaging around $300 for a prostitute per 30 minute sexual encounter I calculate the cost of sex to be $46,800. Rounding this to $50,000 a year we can conclude that for anyone with an income below $100,000 a year a wife's sexual value alone makes marriage cost effective.
However, it also has to be taken into account that a wife provides either additional income, or domestic service to the household. Estimating the costs of a domestic worker a wife also provides at least $30,000 in the form of income or domestic work. ($10 wage rate x 8 hours a day 365 days a year = $29200).
Therefore for anyone earning an income below $160,000 a year marriage is probably cost effective.
For all others marriage is cost effective if:
(income - $100,000)/2 < wifes income
This is fairly positive for marriage. For example a man expecting to earn $250,000 per anum would be rational to marry any woman with an earning power of $75,000 of more per anum. So it is probably only those earning very large sums who would be ill advised to marry. For the majority (earning less than $160,000) marriage is likely to be cost effective.
It must be remembered that this is AFTER TAX income. So in actuality the before tax income would have to be closer to $250,000 for marriage to be uneconomical.
If, however, you are expecting to earn several hundred thousand a year, and believe marriage would be uneconomical, I would suggest Fernley Nevada, Lyon County as a good place to live.
