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Prof Kwame Gyan recounts leaving $75,000 US job for $2,000 Ghana salary

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  • KK(Okraku's greedy belly) 1 hour ago

    75K a year in the USA is nothing so...

  • Nana 1 hour ago

    Stop fooling how many of you are taking above 40k in US? We all have relatives & classmates there. Only very Ghanaians are in in IT, Medicine, academicians to earn thst much

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  • Yourabusebacktoyouindroves 47 minutes ago

    Eediort

  • Basic Algebra 38 minutes ago

    That's more than 20 years ago, may be more than 200k in today's job market

  • Kwame 1 hour ago

    Interesting, Prof let’s add the allowances to put whatever you said in context. I know a young man who left about $120,000 pa job overseas to come back to his CAGD salary of 1,900 cedis and might be 9000 cedis by now. Hones ...
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  • Hamdulilah 1 hour ago

    There are holes in the prof’s story. Holes that shouldn’t be in an account by a law professor. He basically self-deported before he was deported. Second, with an H visa he would have had to become first a Permanent Reside ...
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  • Right choice 59 minutes ago

    Massa $75 K America is no money after living expenses. I re far better off with $2K regular salary in Ghana

  • Basic Algebra 36 minutes ago

    Did you actually read and comprehend the story, he was earning 75K in 1998, more than 25 years ago. Now do the math, with a little luck that man will be earning at least times that amount in 2026

  • Yourabusebacktoyouindroves 41 minutes ago

    Living expenses in US different from GH though. 75 k dollars in US is probably 24k spending equivalent in Ghana anyway. In Gh you get to live with much freedom as well- fresh organic food (if u want ), For me lawyers not impo ...
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  • Boss 41 minutes ago

    75k in 1998 would be about 150k today. Very likely he would have been making 250k to 300k a year if he had stayed on in the US. The prof left a very well paying job to come to ghana. With most of the youth seeking to travel o ...
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