Reply to $20 minimum wage for fast food workers in California….thoughts?

Forum Index » Money and Finances

Reply to "$20 minimum wage for fast food workers in California….thoughts?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]I got paid minimum wage at 16 for my first fast food job in California in 1987 which was 3.35. I just plugged that into a calculator to see how much that is worth in today and it is $9.35.  So how is it fast food workers are now getting paid $20? That is the equivalent of $41,000 a year.

A beginning teacher with a BA/BS and 30 units after their BA/BS (classes taken to get a teaching credential) in Davis, CA (Where UC Davis is located) makes $55,000 a year. Close to UC Santa Barbara is the town of Carpinteria (where Kevin Costner lives). A beginning teacher there makes $50,367.

It is ridiculous that someone who spent 5 years in college can make only $8-13,000 dollars more than someone who didn't graduate high school.

And there is a new health care worker $25 min wage that CA has also passed that will soon be in effect. Health care worker covers hospital gift shop worker, custodian, person answering phones in a hospital or dialysis clinic, etc. That is $52,000 a year.

So if the gift shop worker and person working in the laundry room and person answering the phone who don't need a high school diploma are getting a min of $25, someone who has a high school diploma with more training like an EMT who is now getting $25 needs to get paid more, then the LVN says they have more training than the EMT and should get paid more.

So now the people who have middle income wages who have no min. wage guarantee are getting screwed. Their health care and food is more expensive but they aren't getting paid more. It doesn't make sense that the very rich are getting paid so much more than before and the working poor are getting paid more but middle income workers in CA are really wondering who cares about them. They earned college degrees and many have loans since college wasn't free like it is for low income families. They can't afford to buy a house in CA, they can't save for their kids to go to college, they pay a lot in state taxes yet don't receive very much in return.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics