http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14074153/
Up to 7.25 per hour. Good news for most of the over-18 crowd on VGC :)
Although I make more then that ($7.75 woo). Hopefully I'll get a pay increase as well since I just started.
FINGERS CROSSED DADDY!
I'm payed at minimum salary at 7.75$ , but I'Ll soon have a +0.15$ per hour increase! OMG big deal :rolleyes:
I get payed 8 bucks an hour for running 5 laser printers. Whoo!
Anyways this is good news for most people.
I get comission. Chances are I wont see an increase:(
as of September 11th I will be making roughly $28.59/hr at job 1 and $38.75at job 2.
go me.
This affects me not. But, it is still long over due. When I started my fist job, minimum wage was only $4.35/hour. Now I have a job making $36/hour. With the price of oil going up with no signs of stopping, I don't see how this increase will be much of a help. But, I suppose it's better than nothing.
EDIT: Being late sucks...
Not affected, but it could be a good thing I supose.
it's too bad this only got approved by the house, and then only on the condition that an estate tax cut that would cost the nation $310 billion in revenue get added into the bill.
it's going to die in the senate. sorry guys, enjoy your $5.15.
Quoting NES Queen: Its not as interesting as job 1 (which was why I left in the first place), but as a second job it's a great way to help me pay the bills..
Is it just that you don't get good hours on one job or is the cost of living high there or what? That's pretty crazy that you have to have 2 jobs paying that well just to pay bills.
So minimum wage went up.. Great just great *Sarcasim*
Does anyone understand what that'll do? The average business man who doesn't make a lot of extra money doesn't want to pay more than what he has to. If they go to an increase in pay, they'll have to raise the price in the products they sell and other prices will raise aswell really offsetting the wage increase. I've seen it before in jobs i've had where everyone would get a better wage only for prices of the products to increase shortly after.
It really ends up being offset.
I've heard of people talking it over before but whats really to gain? Sure you make more money but if everything goes up in price then your not really gaining.. Its just making our value of the dollar less.
Please correct me if i'm wrong?
^ Yeah, the price of some products (especially rent) will go up, but this is increase is mainly due to increases in gas prices.
Cool. Rent's going up a lot around here (because of hurricanes), insurance has gotten insanely high (because of hurricanes), we no long have hurricane coverage from Allstate in my area (because of hurricanes), and the price of gas is crazy expensive (partically due to hurricanes). I'm only making $6.00 an hour at my part-time job, but I have that job PURELY for buying cds, going out to eat or an occassional date, and paying for college books. I'm happy with what I'm getting paid, as it's a lot better than the $5.15 I was getting in high school working at a fast food place (working full-time and going to hs). Plus, this is just temporary pay; once I graduate and finish all my RN stuff it's going to be really nice. Cool though, maybe I'll get a few extra dollar bucks.
so wait.. Where I Live Minimum wage is $5.25 an hour. Is it going up $2 an hour here too??
Sadly I make comission so I don't know how that'll affect me. I make $5.90 base pay but with comission ontop of it I make roughly anywhere between $9 to $20 an hour. That won't help me will it...?
[COLOR="Yellow"]I make $300 a day, and that's after paying my employees. So pwn.[/COLOR]
The $ goes in front of the 300.
And it won't affect me at all.
I could have used it last year, though. :mad:
I'm guessing you plans of moving into Chicago fell through, eh?
the offer is still there, and I know my sister would love to have me paying her mortgage. but I don't like, nor approve of, her new husband so that would make things a bit.... odd.
WOW... NES Queen do you live in "NYC"?? Paying that much for rent is rediculous... Around here I can find a 3 bedroom apartment and is literally half a house for $300. Granted its not inside of a city but not too far from a couple diff cities. $1200 seems rediculous to me.. But i'm sure your making more money. Good ol' Pennsylvania.. Cheap as hell to live in.
Florida is expensive as hell, thanks to all teh ****ing retarded northerners who move down here, only to complain about how much better it is up north. THEN ****ING GO BACK. Retards.
I'm pulling down like 300 a week after taxes. Not good, but good enough for now.
WHere im origanaly from (Joysey) the min. wage has oine up to $7.15/hr. But where i live now (Florida) the min. wage is $6.15/hr. but i got a an easy going job in the service industry making an easy $8.00/hr.
If I saved up money and worked my *** off here and tried to move to NYC without having a job lined up... I'd last probably 30 seconds.
Now I think I realize why there are a lot of rich people that have Mansions here. Probably work 6 months in NYC and bust your *** off, move somewhere like around here and you could probably buy a house or two =P
After getting a job at Burger King, I promised myself never to work for minimum wage again. And lo, I'm not.
**** it's pretty expensive to live in New York. Out here in Oklahoma you can buy a 5,000 Sq. Ft. house for about $400,000 dollars. We got a 4500 sq. ft. house for $250,000.
Minimum wage is just that, the minimum they have to pay you. It wont mean people making more than $10 will get a raise. It shifts the value of a dollar a little bit, but not too far. If you were skilled enough to make a few bucks over the old minimum, you could ask for a raise and have a good chance at getting it. Why should you make not much more than the new guy who starts at a little less than what your hard work and loyalty have earned you?
In a field where people make double digits, a minimum has no effect at all. No one earns it and they probably don't deal directly with too many that do either.
cas only makes $13.75/hr USD. I should ask for a raise soon.
What the ****? Is it now higher than the canadian minimum wage? If it is, that's almost retarded.
http://canadaonline.about.com/library/bl/blminwage.htm
This is what the canadian minimums are. At current exchange rates, only NWT, Nunavut and Yukon would be making "more".
Its still all about how much that dollar buys you and how much you need to spend to live on. I pity the fool trying to live on minimum wage.
I'm glad it's going up. $5.75 an hour SUCKS. Not minimum wage here, but it still sucks.
You do realize that it got killed, right? Conservatives tied it to a repeal of the estate tax, and dems didnt want to give the rich another handjob, so they blocked it. Granted, they also ****ed over a lot of lower income people in the process, but at least they arent taking it in the pooper for rich people.
Here's an insensitive question. Who are these poor people that try to 'live' on minimum wage? What job are they doing that pays only minimum wage and why don't they try and get a better job. Even panhandling pays better than minimum wage.
IMO, the only people that have any business working at minimum wage are teens who are just working to make spending money for their various bling blings while still in school/living at home and not paying rent. Or someone who works for tips.
:D Well, unfortunately kiddies (no offence Republicans), Gas is amazingly high, due to stupid President Bush and Haliburton, so don't expect to pay less anytime soon. Yet, fortunately Democrats have finally gotten what they wanted, a raise in minimum wage. Sadly enough Bush has raised the American financial Deficit, meaning that Eventually when we DO get a democratic president, He is going to HAVE to raise taxes (nationally) to pay it off. Other wise we could eventually end up bankrupt. And trust me, then we will see a Depression like No other. Even far surpassing "THE GREAT DEPRESSION".
[quote=NES Queen]I have big girl, "real" jobs.
Job 1: Project Specialist - Blood Technologist at [URL="http://www.pall.com"]Pall Corporation[/URL]
I do special research projects on our medical devices, mostly filters for blood and blood products (red cells, platelets, stem cells...). Investigating why blood from certain donors doesn't filter properly despite being sickle trait negative, studies on apoptosis and its relationship with levels of hemolysis in filtered products, starting up a whole new lab to do work with prions (the proteins that cause mad cow disease). All sorts of interested stuff like that.
Job 2: Medical Technologist at [URL="http://winthrop.org/"]Winthrop U. Hospital[/URL]
Working in the hospital lab doing all the blood tests on the patients. I try to stay in the blood bank department the most since I find it most interesting (selecting units of blood for transfusion, antibody panel workups on the patients, investigating transfusion reactions...). Lately they have me doing double shifts on Sundays, hence the $38/hr. Its not as interesting as job 1 (which was why I left in the first place), but as a second job it's a great way to help me pay the bills. Plus I like the patient aspect. At Pall we lose touch of the big picture sometimes, that ultimately our products are being designed to help improve the safety of patients.
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I make $12.58 a hour as a part-time telemarketer,
[SIZE=1]$781.00 monthly from S.S.I (Social Security), and about $120 (in revenue) monthly, from my website :(. Finally my Band Tours each summer and we make couple thousand in shows, but after we pay for gas, living expenses and then split the actual cash, I only make zilch.[/SIZE]
Otherwise I am a part-time writer and manage to publish a new book about once every year so that’s some extra cash and every now (once in a blue moon) and then they let me teach a class at the local American Karate Dojo(I graduated there as a black belt), but only for a measly 3.20 a hour. I also mow graveyards in the spring for about $20-50.
I make a lot compared to other people where I live...but no where near that much:(
On the other hand I'm in collage as we speak taking a part-time data encoding classes and 2D animation. Next summer I want to quit most my working and devote full time to collage. I'm planning on taking 3D animation, character design and game development classes.
Ultimately I want to be a game designer or Lead Graphics Coordinator for a game branch.
Those jobs pay anywhere between $125,000-250,000 dollars a year. Unfortunately it requires 5 years of collage and a PhD (or masters) to get a career in the upmost sectors of game development....so I'm not going anywhere for some while
:(
I worked at a camp for about 2 days a week for about 4 weeks and made about $200. NE 1 know how much the tax deductions are for VT? (if it matters I'm 15):cursor:
"Yet, fortunately Democrats have finally gotten what they wanted, a raise in minimum wage."
You do realize that democrats teamed up with fiscal conservatives to kill this measure, right? I mean, are you ENTIRELY retarded, or are you just not bothering to read anything?
...I think I will go with the second one. Must be mis-informed:(
Although to be fair, the democratic party has had to make some rather stupid decisions regarding policies recently. It all boils down to the 2008 elections. The democratic party must win over that enormous population in the RED states and to do so they must appear somewhat conservative, even proving that they can be unbias and work with the republicans.
Yet, if they win the new elections, I forsee a major change in the way the are letting them selves be seen in the public today....rather Liberal action will be taking and laws passed (or aided more so) by them now, will be revoked in a democratic senate and replaced with traditional liberal incentive such as (raised taxes, cheaper if not free health care, lower gas prices, tougher laws and restrictions on environmental hazards and pollution, grants for poor people to attend schools for free or on scholarship, International diplomacy and strengthening foreign affairs, mass amounts of investment in our country...not another (the middle east), a major little scientific break through I call Stem cell research & a flood of grants, loans and money for the research of alternative fuels to gas. These to name a few)
...I guess I just havent been paying as close attention to things as you have huh?:(
No body want's a second canada I guess....wait, Democrates do?
[Back to UFO conspiracies....]
Yeah, I mean, who would want to live in a country that like, takes care of it citizens, and has lower cime rates and an overall higher staisfaction of living? Man, not me, thats for sure.
[quote=cas]Here's an insensitive question. Who are these poor people that try to 'live' on minimum wage? What job are they doing that pays only minimum wage and why don't they try and get a better job. Even panhandling pays better than minimum wage.
IMO, the only people that have any business working at minimum wage are teens who are just working to make spending money for their various bling blings while still in school/living at home and not paying rent. Or someone who works for tips.
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Well, These poor people who make minimum wage are the people who where less fortunate than many of us, they where forced into there simple yet stressful lives. A example if I may. IN the appalachian moutains (North-eastern TN, Southwest VA, Eastern KY, & North western North Carolina) there exists people who have lived in the moutains and hollows since there greatest grand parents (most irish settlers) settled in to there in the late 1700's. These people has horrible educations and even with there free comunity collages, the greates of classes are only but nursing and welding. Because of where they live, they use massive amounts of gas to get around and use a lot of heating oil in the winters, because of the cold climates. The appalacain moutains are so undeveloped that there are places that still do not have plumbing, water or a phone line. Even more so, almost everyone who lives in this massive area, have to live without things you and I take for granted everyday, such as cable, DSL or Broad band (Think how bad it would suck if you couldnt play any games online!?), healthy foods, nice clothing, a proper eductation, housing and stores and restarants. See in these places the best jobs you can get are fast food (as they are some of the only places to work), there are NO reserants, malls or variety of stores. Only fast food, the dollar store and a couple walmarts. Imagion what it would be like to end up spending your whole weeks worth pay check on the gas it took to actually get to the job and food? The problem even exists that because of this lack of jobs teens must do with out computures, games, phones, nice clothing and such (most hunt, fish or resort to drugs, bacause of the abundance in pot and lack of cash).
Parents are left, without health care, a fighting for miniumn wage jobs. I used to live in a small town in Va, we had a polutation of 97 people in my town, no Internet, a Hardiees and a Pizzahut, a foodlion, payless and dollar store & 1 Shell gas station. Life sucked, even more there where literally NO jobs.
......We later moved.
Sader is the fact that in places like this the law getts bent for sexuality, such is the fact that almost no place will hire a man. See, because of the lack of jobs, it is the norm to assume that because wemen can't work in the Coal mines and the men can, that all men be regected for any job other then mining and the wemon be left to bicker and ergue over who gets what job where.
Mining is one of the most dangerous and hazardous jobs in north america, most people who work in them later die early of black lung and suffer through 13 hour days.
The appalacian moutains account for over 89% of the coal produced in america. So if these people left we would not have enough fuel, so unfortunatly they are orced to make a mezzly amount.
I lived hear for a while so let me tell you the Bar of Wages here-
(Yearly)
Upperclass- $18,000-$25,000 (Doctors and Lawyers)
U-Middle Wage- $12,000-$18,000
Middle Wage- $3,000-$12,000
L-Middle Wage- $1,000-$3,000
Poor-Poverty- $0-$1,000 (This is what range me and my family where in for 8 years)
As you can see there is very little money cerculating about here, so even high paying jobs like lawyers and doctors (even though making massively more than others here) still receive far to little compare to the counterparts else where.
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This was an example. There are many more places and worse situations.
:)