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Yay for tax-exempt employers! I could be working at a place and making 2 dollars more an hour, but I would be taking the same amount home, and I'm actually very happy not to be working retail this summer.
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What is min. wage everywhere now??? At home (yakima, washington) I was making 7.75 an hour. (Although technically, min. wage was 7.16.) My boss just likes me :-)
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shit- last time I had a job that paid minimum wage I was 14 years old. worked that for 3 months then quit to work for a lawyer for $6.50/hr
started at HyVee at the same rate 2 years later, am at... $8.50/hr now and all I ever do is stand around, socialize, and drink starbucks. I only bust ass when I need to. Hmm- that reminds me, Tgiving and Xmas are coming up, time to ramp up my productivity so I can get a quarter raise. |
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Back in the Eastern US does the wait staff still make only $2.14 an hour plus tips? (It was that way when I lived in VA and moonlighted as a cocktailer)
In Washington State, you make $7.16 an hour plus tips |
an Amendment here was just passed to raise the min. wage to $6.15
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It varies greatly by state and two states do have minimum wage laws below the federal minimum.
Here's a link for details: minimum wage map |
The minimum wage in Ontario is now $7.15. It's been like that for a while now. I believed it was raised in 2003.
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As of today's exchange rate, that would $5.96/hour US.
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At my convenient store job I get $5.25 and at my computer lab job I get $5.67. It's about 30 hours a week and I still struggle!
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$7.10 per hour here.
Waitstaff can be paid $5.02/hr on the grounds that they make up the difference in tips, but only for the hours that they're actually waiting tables. For time that they spend preparing food, washing dishes, general clean-up, being a host/hostess, serving take-out customers, etc. the employer must pay at least $7.10/hr. |
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It is $6.75 an hr. I took a holiday job at target to offset Christmas expenses and it is obscene the little amt they pay and the grunt work they make you do |
Here in San Francisco minimun wage is 8.50 I believe (not sure about the cents, but it's around there. I went to Hooters the other day and they have added a tax or fee or whatever they want to call it onto their food so they can pay it to their wait staff
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Minimum wage is horrible for the economy. :(
ETA: I see people talking about working in restaurants. These people aren't covered under the rules for minimum wage. Just FYI. |
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