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25/30 hr is not great. Hate to tell you
by greatpostman 4y ago
25/30 hr is not great. Hate to tell you
- bluedino 4y agoIt's relative
- greatpostman 4y agoTo what? Working at McDonald’s?
- prottog 4y agoRelative to what other jobs in the area pay and the cost of living, of course. The competition may in fact be McDonald's paying $12 an hour or Walmart paying $14.
- Wojtkie 4y agoIt's extremely easy to clear more than 25-30 an hour waiting tables in a lot of places.
- prottog 4y agoThe places where you can easily clear more than $25-30 an hour as a waiter are also places with high cost of living and expensive housing. As a counterexample, in my area (a midsize city in a low cost-of-living state), restaurants universally suffered from sharp labor shortages last year. $25-30 an hour would let you live comfortably here, meaning they should have had a lot of applicants; therefore the money just wasn't there.
- sethammons 4y agoMy wife was a waitress for years (but not in the last decade or so). A four hour shift at Sizzler (yes, the stake house that everyone loves to hate) would get her about $25/hr on average easily. A decade ago. In a small town in the Inland Empire of SoCal, amongst the lowest cost of living in California.
- karaterobot 4y agoSmall point: According to Indeed, the (average?) salary for a machinist at Boeing is $87k, so it'd be more like $40-45 an hour these days.