ION: if my pension is say, 7M, what would I take home after taxes?

The likes of Steve Mbogo.

Ati 500k? Remember that thread of how many Kenyans earn 100+k, if you add the employed and self employed plus juakali guys they are not that many tuseme like 50k people, how many of the 50k do you think are single guys?

At 500k a month, I will be at peace with ISIS ...on a serious note though, the money is in the private sector, not salaries. You dont expect to work for someone and get paid that much...at least not easily

Just find 10 women who earn more than 500K and lay them each week for 10 K;At the end of the month,you will be netting 400K tax free for using your dick.Hio kitu sio sabuni

Walter white,

Am trying the latter route that you pin pointed: immigrating to an American country in the course of the year. I wanna try my luck n so far so good there is hope!! Are the manual jobs there worth it?

Make that 6 Million! No, 13Million!!

I will never leave this country with all these beautiful succulent airports

Well, let me tell you. Kama mtu ni wa kulalia masikio his or her environment won't matter. If someone can't hack it in US, basi asahau Kenya which is not for the fainthearted. In Kenya people are too street smart and do or die for survival. For me, America means the country where someone's sweat is comparatively rewarded. It is not free money, you must work. But if you're willing and able to work the sky is the limit.



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@Mike Ock,

The average poorest working person in the US lives a lifestyle of a Kenyan in old Buruburu or so. You won't find slums made of cardboard like in Kibera, or kadogo economy which subsidizes the cost of living for the poor. I agree that minimum wage of 100k per month in Kenya will take you further than in an mid-size US city, but not by much ie assuming a lifestyle of a family living in Buruburu. That is my point! If you're willing to live in slum areas then there's almost no limit to the depths of poor living you can get away with in Kenya. But is that the goal? To see how much undignified poverty one can get away with in the name of cheap living?

Assuming the lowest we go down to is a Buruburu type middle class lifestlye.. Average rent is at least 25-30K. Add transport, food, clothes, school fees/supplies, medical. That 100K isn't so grand after all, is it?

Our Kenyan govt has been a total failure despite the citizenry being extremely hardworking and ambitious. KCPE results just came out and all these top performers were celebrating with their teachers and parents. They talked about how hard they studied, how they prayed etc etc. It brought back memories when I was in their shoes and later on in high school. How we would soak our legs in a basin of cold water to avoid sleeping while studying. And for what?!

How many of my former classmates are still stuck in low paying jobs, hustling or worse unemployed? We tell our kenyan kids to work hard in school, but for what? Yes, I don't disagree that literacy is important. I'm talking about the extra mile we had to go: the extra tuition, the late night or all night cramming. The good thing about America is that the harder you work the more the rewards. There's a direct correlation between the two. For example, a typical nurse makes about $35 per hour. If they do overtime, it's time and a half, so $53 per hour. If you're a nursing assistant the pay is $12 per hour etc etc. Hence, an American nurse is paid well enough to live in a beautiful house, take their kids to good schools and be able to save/invest for the future. It makes sense to study hard in school because the benefits for those who do are clear. Back at home, our nurses and doctors in public sector lead miserable lifestyles despite the substantial effort they put in their studies. Why is higher education in Kenya still considered a good investment, which it isn't?!

Kenyans deserve much better for all the effort they put in. Unfortunately, that rarely happens.