On Wed, 07 Aug 2013 09:55:50 +0100, scott wrote:

>> 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.

Not everybody has the option to move.  Moving costs money, and if you 
don't make enough money to relocate, you're kinda screwed.

Your privilege is showing.

Jim

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