> 5% walmart - minimum wage
> 5% k-mart - minimum wage
> 5% sterilite (a cheap plastics company) - slightly over minimum, but
> they require 10 hour days, staggered, so as not to pay overtime (5 days
> one week, then 3 the next, so they don't actually pay you more than if
> it was 10 '8 hour' days.
> 10% small businesses - almost all minimum wage, and less than 30 hours a
> week.
> 70% restaurants - require to pay minimum wage **only** if wages (at
> $3.50 an hour) + tips is "lower" than the minimum would be, and then..
> nearly all of them "pool" the tips, and divide them among all of the
> staff, including management.
> 10% general "other" jobs - some of which "may" pay more than minimum.
> 5% The assholes that own all of it.

Seems a very bad place to live if 85% of the jobs are (almost) minimum 
wage - I'd move to a different city where the distribution better 
reflects your typical national distribution.

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