When one can get a clerk job for 18 dollars an hour.
Yes small town USA.
One better be willing to pay skilled and mostly skill labor a lot more.
Henry arms is trying to recruit CNC machinists starting at 17 dollars an hour what a joke.
I think Riverrunner has it right. I’m a credit analysts with over 25 years of experience. I get calls from headhunters at like least twice a week offering me $55-60k a year. I try not to be rude, but really?
Same with Sig in New Hampshire. Advertising for engineers, starting pay $19.00 p/hr. McDonalds $16.00 p/hr plus a meal.
When I was in college I was a certified structural welder at 15 an hour. That was 35 years ago. Welding jobs today are still only paying 15 to 20 an hour. That’s the cost of importing millions of illegal aliens a year.
A & W in the little town I now live in is offering $18.25/ hour for new employees with ZERO experience.
Yet the health system I left expects qualified engineers with literally decades of experience to accept $35/ hour.
The employers had too much choice and power to artificially suppress wages (illegals etc) and forgot that skills and talent need to be compensated fairly.
Now the boomers are leaving, and nobody is willing to work for peanuts anymore.
25/ hour for firewood stacking. Last two walked away.
33/hour for housecleaning
Rural