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Bucket Carriers’ Average Pay 
= $28,500 
 
Buckets on Parade 
So what do bucket carriers do when they need more 
money? Because they have a bucket-carrying 
mentality, they come up with a bucket-carrying 
solution – if you need more money, you’ve got to 
carry more buckets! 
“I’ll get a second job carrying buckets in the 
evenings and weekends,”
Daddy Bucket Carrier 
says. 
“I can go back to the bucket-carrying job I had 
before the kids were born,” says Mommy Bucket 
Carrier.
 
“The kids can get bucket-carrying jobs after school 
and in the summer,” the bucket-carrying parents 
announce. 
And that’s what they do. The result? 
Today, North Americans work the longest hours in 
the world, even more than the work-obsessed 

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Japanese. Is the earn-more-money-by-carrying-
more-buckets plan working? 
In a word, “NO!” 
Here are the cold, hard facts: 

Consumer debt is at a record high. Household 
debt in the U.S. has more than quadrupled in the 
last 17 years. The average household today has 
95¢ of debt for every dollar of disposable 
income. 
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The proportion of women working to support 
their families more than doubled over the past 
20 years, from 19% in 1980 to 46% today. 
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More and more people are taking second and 
third mortgages on their single biggest asset – 
their homes – to pay bills. 
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Personal bankruptcies have increased every year 
to 1.4million in the year 2000 – even though the 
economy is booming! 
Hello-o-o-o!
What’s wrong with this picture? 
The fallacy of Carrying Bigger Buckets 
Bucket carriers reason that bigger buckets mean 
bigger paychecks. So bucket carriers tell 
themselves that everything would be okay if they 
could just get a job carrying bigger buckets. 
Bucket carriers are forever wondering how much 
other bucket carriers earn. The U.S. Bureau of 
Labor statistics keeps track of the hourly wages of 
hundreds of different occupations. How does your 
hourly wage compare to other jobs? 

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Assuming most people get paid for 40 hours a week 
(even though they probably 
work at least 50 hours a 
week… or more!)
and get two weeks’ paid vacation 
each year, here’s the annual income for five of the 
above occupations: