But water freezes and gets bigger. It's inflationary!
So in real terms they're paying people less AND company exec bonuses are well beyond reasonable. Yet any argument towards a pay rise on that minimum wage is seen as inflationary.
There's about a million people making at or below minimum wage in the US. Not nobody. That isn't counting situations like Uber and Amazon contractors whose expenses like gas and wear&tear aren't appropriately accounted for. But it is true that a smaller percentage of people are at the federal minimum wage, thanks in part to individual states with higher minima.
A majority of states set a higher minimum wage than the federal limit, and unless I missed something the only highly populated state without a higher minimum is Texas.
>There's about a million people making at or below minimum wage in the US. Not nobody.
I'm sure there are people who are working jobs with truly awful sub-minimum wage pay (under the table work, undocumented folks, etc) but I imagine the vast, vast majority of people working "below the minimum wage" are tipped workers who nominally make $2.13/hr but who simply do not report their tips.
Edit: based on the BLS tables that accounts for maybe 61% of those below minimum wage. But the data doesn't make a whole lot of sense. There are 63,000 workers in "management, professional, and related occupations" making less than minimum wage, and aside from CEOs taking $0 paychecks I can't imagine where those jobs are.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 40.3 ms ] threadSo in real terms they're paying people less AND company exec bonuses are well beyond reasonable. Yet any argument towards a pay rise on that minimum wage is seen as inflationary.
Interesting world.
There's about a million people making at or below minimum wage in the US. Not nobody. That isn't counting situations like Uber and Amazon contractors whose expenses like gas and wear&tear aren't appropriately accounted for. But it is true that a smaller percentage of people are at the federal minimum wage, thanks in part to individual states with higher minima.
https://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/state-min...
A majority of states set a higher minimum wage than the federal limit, and unless I missed something the only highly populated state without a higher minimum is Texas.
I'm sure there are people who are working jobs with truly awful sub-minimum wage pay (under the table work, undocumented folks, etc) but I imagine the vast, vast majority of people working "below the minimum wage" are tipped workers who nominally make $2.13/hr but who simply do not report their tips.
Edit: based on the BLS tables that accounts for maybe 61% of those below minimum wage. But the data doesn't make a whole lot of sense. There are 63,000 workers in "management, professional, and related occupations" making less than minimum wage, and aside from CEOs taking $0 paychecks I can't imagine where those jobs are.