When I first opened the lots o posty page, this was the first thing I saw...and I was going to say you need to find a new job if that's all you make! You deserve at least 3 times that!
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Colin, the word 'gotten' always sits funny with me, so I looked it up just for kicks and wiki.answers says- and they've pegged you well:
"Although the British stopped using the past participle gotten about three hundred years ago, the American colonists and their descendants--
especially in New England--still tend to use it.
Some English teachers have tried to ban its usage to make American English conform to British English, especially during the nineteenth and early twentieth century when there was a movement to purify English. Others are just not used to its use because it is not used in their region and hear it as an error.
Ultimately, language is convention. If you are writing for a formal audience outside of New England, you might want to use the simple past form got instead. It is like the dictum to never end a sentence with a preposition because that is something some people just will not put--ummm--up with which some people just will not put!"
