On 8/6/2014 7:04 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 8/6/2014 8:34 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 16:42:09 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 8/6/14 3:35 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 12:44:57 -0500, Califbill
wrote:

wrote:
On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 01:59:31 -0500, Califbill

Here they pay in excess of $15 an hour for regular workers. So
couple
would make in excess of $30 an hour.

According to glassdoor the average for associates is more like $11
and
you don't break the $15 barrier until you are some kind of
supervisor.
California may be the exception, along with Hawaii, Alaska and parts
of New York.,

McD's pays $10.50 to start most urban places in California. And
seems as
if the Mexican's they are able to hire, as they work, also can do math
better than the American kids.

It is actually pretty hard to find a minimum wage job here in Florida
and the ones you see are truly just day labor for people who may not
finish working out the week.

At my wife's club, the only minimum wage full time workers are making
double or triple that in tips. Some make lots more.
The "cart barn" is splitting about $500 a day in season from the tip
jar. (starters, bag boys and rangers) plus whatever cash they pocket
directly. It is against policy but not rare.
Most of the rangers and starters would do it for the free golf alone.
That is worth $50-100 a round in season depending on where they would
play.



According to the BLS, an awful lot of Floridians earn $10 an hour or
less.

http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_fl.htm


When I sort that table by mean wage, I see most of those $10 jobs are
people who get tips.

I admit there are a lot of agricultural workers who make **** money.
It is still a lot more than they could make in Guatemala.

I also notice there are not many, at all, making $7,.75, the minimum
wage here.



I didn't spend a lot of time looking at that long list of occupations
but after searching for 2 or 3 minutes I only found about 4 that paid
$10/hr or less.

One was for a "parking attendant" ... another for a "vehicle cleaner".
Forgot what the other two were.

Hardly "an awful lot" (Harry's words).


Harry the wordsmith has an awful time trying to put a bunch of words
together to make a truthful and accurate statement.

--
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the
government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of
taking care of them".
Thomas Jefferson