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good thing no one makes minimum wage anymore. McDonalds around here is starting at $17/hr in my $7.25 minimum state. Not even a hcol area.

klyrs 4y ago
https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2020/home.htm https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2020/home.htm There's about a million people making at or below minimum wage in the US. Not nobody. That isn't counting situations like Uber and Amazon contractors whose expenses like gas and wear&tear aren't appropriately accounted for. But it is true that a smaller percentage of people are at the federal minimum wage, thanks in part to individual states with higher minima. https://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/state-minimum-wage-chart.aspx https://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/state-min... A majority of states set a higher minimum wage than the federal limit, and unless I missed something the only highly populated state without a higher minimum is Texas.
- missedthecue 4y ago
  Almost all of those are tipped workers. They make at or below minimum wage and then bring in $10-20 an hour in tips on top of that.
  - klyrs 4y ago
    Do you have statistics to back up that claim?
    - willcipriano 4y ago
      Yeah it's way higher than that in my experience in the restaurant industry.
      - klyrs 4y ago
        That's not statistics.
- v0x 4y ago
  >There's about a million people making at or below minimum wage in the US. Not nobody. I'm sure there are people who are working jobs with truly awful sub-minimum wage pay (under the table work, undocumented folks, etc) but I imagine the vast, vast majority of people working "below the minimum wage" are tipped workers who nominally make $2.13/hr but who simply do not report their tips. Edit: based on the BLS tables that accounts for maybe 61% of those below minimum wage. But the data doesn't make a whole lot of sense. There are 63,000 workers in "management, professional, and related occupations" making less than minimum wage, and aside from CEOs taking $0 paychecks I can't imagine where those jobs are.

klyrs 4y ago

https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2020/home.htm https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2020/home.htm There's about a million people making at or below minimum wage in the US. Not nobody. That isn't counting situations like Uber and Amazon contractors whose expenses like gas and wear&tear aren't appropriately accounted for. But it is true that a smaller percentage of people are at the federal minimum wage, thanks in part to individual states with higher minima. https://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/state-minimum-wage-chart.aspx https://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/state-min... A majority of states set a higher minimum wage than the federal limit, and unless I missed something the only highly populated state without a higher minimum is Texas.

missedthecue 4y ago
Almost all of those are tipped workers. They make at or below minimum wage and then bring in $10-20 an hour in tips on top of that.
- klyrs 4y ago
  Do you have statistics to back up that claim?
  - willcipriano 4y ago
    Yeah it's way higher than that in my experience in the restaurant industry.
    - klyrs 4y ago
      That's not statistics.
v0x 4y ago
>There's about a million people making at or below minimum wage in the US. Not nobody. I'm sure there are people who are working jobs with truly awful sub-minimum wage pay (under the table work, undocumented folks, etc) but I imagine the vast, vast majority of people working "below the minimum wage" are tipped workers who nominally make $2.13/hr but who simply do not report their tips. Edit: based on the BLS tables that accounts for maybe 61% of those below minimum wage. But the data doesn't make a whole lot of sense. There are 63,000 workers in "management, professional, and related occupations" making less than minimum wage, and aside from CEOs taking $0 paychecks I can't imagine where those jobs are.