“Managers” at a fast food place make more than $22,000 a year.
“Managers” at a fast food place make more than $22,000 a year.”
So? It ain’t like that is still a lot of money. In actual buying power I would say it falls considerably below that of a person earning the minimum wage of $1.25 an hour for forty hours a week back in 1963.
He’s probably overstating his position. There are “shift supervisors” who call themselves managers but in reality, they are mostly flipping burgers like everybody else with the exception that they need to put on a white shirt and tie and present themselves as “the manager” to an angry customer who didn’t get his Whopper fixed right.
A true fast food manager works the day shift, does the hiring and firing, and has P&L responsibility along with performance incentive comp plans. Yes, they tend to do pretty well financially in a high volume store.