Re: Bumvertising
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
And the guys who hand out advertising leaflets were making around $10/hr last summer in NY. The guys who stand on the side of the road in chicken suits/pirate suits/big hands pointing to new home sites etc, were making around $12/hr.
[/ QUOTE ]
What is your source for this claim?
q/q
[/ QUOTE ]
New York City wages are some of the highest in the country.
NYC has also cracked down on the street activity so has taken away other options for non violent street people.
I am not surprised at all that this would happen in NYC. I have occasionally seen homeless people handing out fliers in downtown Boston in a shopping district.
Oh yeah, that $300 per day pan handling figure mentioned in a post above is not sustainable anywhere in the USA. A 'good' pan handler could make over $70 per day in Boston most likely. A top earner could probably earn more but not much more- much more than this and they have great salesmanship skills so they could earn considerably more in the straight working world if they can get their act together. Moving above that would be people dealing drugs, including 'bunk' or fake drugs, or shoplifting, etc. Or of course, honest work. And most of this is not going to be happening on a 5 day week, 4 weeks a month. Things are a lot more transient than that, with rare exeptions.
|