How much raise should my wife ask for now with Biden and $15/h minimum wage?

[Anonymous]

My wife currently makes $42k. She has multiple years of experience and a master's degree. Yes, the salary is pretty low, but that's what the University system pays. It seems like people are now gonna make $15 per hour to work at Walmart or McDonald's. That's about $31-32k per year. If someone with zero education and no skills can make that much, it seems.like someone with a lot more eduction and years of experience doing work at a university should make more than only $9k more than that kind of work at walmart. Is a $20k raise reasonable?

[Anonymous]

Does your wife work 52 weeks a year at 40 hours a week?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does your wife work 52 weeks a year at 40 hours a week?

Yes.

[Anonymous]

No a $20k raise is not reasonable for a proposed law. Troll fail.

[Anonymous]

OP, it's not going to go well for your wife if she requests a 50% raise and cites increased minimum wage as the reason.

What is her job?

[Anonymous]

Raising minimum wage is to help people out of poverty. If everyone else gets a "raise", it just continues the gap. What your wife makes has nothing to do with minimum wage increasing. Wow, just wow.

[Anonymous]

NP, but I was also thinking about this in regard to a proposed $15 minimum wage. A lot of people with degrees and experience are making between $40-50K. Why should they make that little when you can make 30K with zero experience?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Raising minimum wage is to help people out of poverty. If everyone else gets a "raise", it just continues the gap. What your wife makes has nothing to do with minimum wage increasing. Wow, just wow.

This is why some people don't want to raise the minimum wage - because it drives inflation. Everyone wants to make more and everything starts to cost more. I support increasing the minimum wage, but that's reality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Raising minimum wage is to help people out of poverty. If everyone else gets a "raise", it just continues the gap. What your wife makes has nothing to do with minimum wage increasing. Wow, just wow.

You don't think people with technical skills and experience should make more than someone that can walk onto a job with no specialized experience?

[Anonymous]

You do realize that working at McDonalds is hard work, right? I'm sure it's much harder than admin work at a university.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, it's not going to go well for your wife if she requests a 50% raise and cites increased minimum wage as the reason.

What is her job?

Why wouldn't it go well? She will now only make a few dollars more per hour than a high school kid who pushes carts at a grocery store. She's an administrator in HR.

[Anonymous]

Lol i love it.

“Hey, everyone else is unskilled, I’m not quite as unskilled, but almost, so pay me more”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP, but I was also thinking about this in regard to a proposed $15 minimum wage. A lot of people with degrees and experience are making between $40-50K. Why should they make that little when you can make 30K with zero experience?

I think you’ll find that most people will choose education and a better job, even if they could now survive with a minimum wage job. And if some of them don’t, so what? Minimum wage jobs need doing, too. I suspect that if OP’s wife quit her job there would be plenty of applicants to replace her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, it's not going to go well for your wife if she requests a 50% raise and cites increased minimum wage as the reason.

What is her job?

Why wouldn't it go well? She will now only make a few dollars more per hour than a high school kid who pushes carts at a grocery store. She's an administrator in HR.

The fact you can’t figure out why is amazing. Please try it and report back the results. Ill go make popcorn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You do realize that working at McDonalds is hard work, right? I'm sure it's much harder than admin work at a university.

I'm sure it is also harder work than accountants who click buttons on a screen who make six figures. Your point?