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15. I just used an inflation calculator

Mon Dec 30, 2019, 05:28 PM

Dec 2019

I picked the first one in a google search but here's the one from the BLS that's down to the month: https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=10&year1=199301&year2=201901

I chose to adjust from 1993 rather than 1985 because you characterized the pay as "decent" throughout the period. I don't know how commercial cleaning compares to amazon warehouse work but my impression is that both jobs can be physically taxing. It seems like it's comparable to amazon pay when counting the benefits from amazon and, if I take your description at face value, the worker classification of the employment.

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