who makes just min. wage?

[Your Mom]

Just wondering, because I have never met anyone who makes only min. wage. I live in the midwest, where wages are lower than on the coasts. Here are some jobs that I know pay more than min. wage.

Dishwasher - I made $8/hour in 1999 doing this.
McDonalds - My cousin made between $8 and $9 doing this before he quit a few months ago.
Grocery Store - My brother made $5.25 in 1997 when he was 15 when min. wage was 4.25.

Just wondering who out there is making min. wage. I'm not saying they don't exist. I'd just like to know who.

[haarley]

I start my employees out at $9.00 an hour with no experience.

[natedogg]

I have had 3 different jobs that paid me minimum wage.

natedogg

[Brainwalter]

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I have had 3 different jobs that paid me minimum wage.

natedogg

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And what were they?

[jman220]

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Just wondering, because I have never met anyone who makes only min. wage. I live in the midwest, where wages are lower than on the coasts. Here are some jobs that I know pay more than min. wage.

Dishwasher - I made $8/hour in 1999 doing this.
McDonalds - My cousin made between $8 and $9 doing this before he quit a few months ago.
Grocery Store - My brother made $5.25 in 1997 when he was 15 when min. wage was 4.25.

Just wondering who out there is making min. wage. I'm not saying they don't exist. I'd just like to know who.

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My first job when I was 15 was in a Burger King (it lasted all of 2 months before I couldn't take it anymore and quit). They paid me minimum wage, and that was on Long Island, NY, where the cost of living is the highest in the country. Most of my co-workers were not kids, they were older, and were making between minimum wage, and at the highest, $6.50 an hour, and thosee were the ones who had been working there for years and years and years. The raises were ridiculous, something like 10 cents an hour (ooh big money) every year.

My second job, also in High School, after Burger King did pay more than minimum wage, but only like $5.45 an hour, so not by much, that was in a beer and soda store working as a clerk.

[FlFishOn]

Thanks to Government meddling, many waiters get minimum wage PLUS tips. W/O the min. wage many would not be paid hourly at all, tips only.

I earned min wage at 14. I earned less than min at 11. I'm stuck at poker this month. Where's my gov subsidy?

[Your Mom]

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Just wondering, because I have never met anyone who makes only min. wage. I live in the midwest, where wages are lower than on the coasts. Here are some jobs that I know pay more than min. wage.

Dishwasher - I made $8/hour in 1999 doing this.
McDonalds - My cousin made between $8 and $9 doing this before he quit a few months ago.
Grocery Store - My brother made $5.25 in 1997 when he was 15 when min. wage was 4.25.

Just wondering who out there is making min. wage. I'm not saying they don't exist. I'd just like to know who.

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My first job when I was 15 was in a Burger King (it lasted all of 2 months before I couldn't take it anymore and quit). They paid me minimum wage, and that was on Long Island, NY, where the cost of living is the highest in the country. Most of my co-workers were not kids, they were older, and were making between minimum wage, and at the highest, $6.50 an hour, and thosee were the ones who had been working there for years and years and years. The raises were ridiculous, something like 10 cents an hour (ooh big money) every year.

My second job, also in High School, after Burger King did pay more than minimum wage, but only like $5.45 an hour, so not by much, that was in a beer and soda store working as a clerk.

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Kind of what I was wondering. Is min. wage more prevalent in more populated areas?

[Your Mom]

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Thanks to Government meddling, many waiters get minimum wage PLUS tips. W/O the min. wage many would not be paid hourly at all, tips only.

I earned min wage at 14. I earned less than min at 11. I'm stuck at poker this month. Where's my gov subsidy?

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I know what you mean. I am down at poker for the year, but have paid the govt. 4800 in taxes for 2006 (Estimated qtr. payments). It makes me sick....and poor (not really poor).

[Copernicus]

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Just wondering, because I have never met anyone who makes only min. wage. I live in the midwest, where wages are lower than on the coasts. Here are some jobs that I know pay more than min. wage.

Dishwasher - I made $8/hour in 1999 doing this.
McDonalds - My cousin made between $8 and $9 doing this before he quit a few months ago.
Grocery Store - My brother made $5.25 in 1997 when he was 15 when min. wage was 4.25.

Just wondering who out there is making min. wage. I'm not saying they don't exist. I'd just like to know who.

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My first job when I was 15 was in a Burger King (it lasted all of 2 months before I couldn't take it anymore and quit). They paid me minimum wage, and that was on Long Island, NY, where the cost of living is the highest in the country. Most of my co-workers were not kids, they were older, and were making between minimum wage, and at the highest, $6.50 an hour, and thosee were the ones who had been working there for years and years and years. The raises were ridiculous, something like 10 cents an hour (ooh big money) every year.

My second job, also in High School, after Burger King did pay more than minimum wage, but only like $5.45 an hour, so not by much, that was in a beer and soda store working as a clerk.

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Kind of what I was wondering. Is min. wage more prevalent in more populated areas?

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Its more prevalent where there is a surplus of cheap labor. That may be more populated areas, or areas without that many opportunities for unskilled labor but a more or less "normal" population.

In the NY metro area there were several summers where, for some reason, there was a short supply of working teens, and even the McD's and BKs had to increase their pay to the $8-$9 range. This summer hasnt been like that, with less jobs and more available kids.

Movie theatre help (usher, ticket seller, concession stand) is another one that pays min. wage when they have the labor supply.

I dont know how it is now, but when I worked in a commercial car wash as a kid, that was min wage plus tips and sometimes you had to fight for your share of the tips!

[Hopey]

I was paid $4.15/hour (CAN$) at my first job 16 years ago. I was a bagboy at a supermarket. I worked there 3 years, and I think I was making $6.25/hour as a cashier when I quit to work in a warehouse that was paying me $8/hour.

I thought I was rich when I was making $8/hour. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]