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Workers now demanding nearly $80K to start new job
Fox Business ^ | August 21, 2023 6:36pm EDT | Megan Henney

Posted on 08/21/2023 8:46:23 PM PDT by Olog-hai

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To: Maris Crane

Well yes; there’s Fox News and Fox Business. There’s also Fox Weather IIRC. But they’re all controlled by liberal Lachlan Murdoch these days.


21 posted on 08/22/2023 1:20:29 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Aren’t these classic free market transactions. Bidder and asker?


22 posted on 08/22/2023 4:38:56 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: Olog-hai

I have been at the university for 25 years and I make $10k less than the new guy on the team. The people who have been here the longest are the lowest paid


23 posted on 08/22/2023 5:13:15 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: DAC21

That’s because they don’t last long.


24 posted on 08/22/2023 5:14:23 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: Olog-hai
...Federal Reserve Bank of New York survey published Monday....

Snort.

25 posted on 08/22/2023 5:16:25 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: Olog-hai

My son left his job at a health care facility that paid $17 an hour because they were hiring new inexperienced people at $20 per hour and would not raise the pay of existing employees to match.

This weekend he graduates from the police academy. Starting pay is $70K a year plus good benefits plus a signing bonus. He is number 2 in his class - seems they have a point system and number one is a black, female veteran - and he got Top Gun with a perfect score on the final range test. This is a kid who was once courted by NASA and had one of his experiments launched into space. He went through EMS training and had excellent scores, but got bumped by required diversity hiring. We never thought he would go for law enforcement, but he is doing so in a conservative area in Texas where the police are appreciated, so at least there’s that.


26 posted on 08/22/2023 5:47:05 AM PDT by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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To: Crusher138

Bravo


27 posted on 08/22/2023 5:49:12 AM PDT by combat_boots
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To: TakebackGOP

“From 2009-2011, college grads could be making $10-$15 an hour or $30 grand.”

Liberal art grads but not STEM. They start, minimum, at $50k.


28 posted on 08/22/2023 5:50:49 AM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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To: Mogger
In addition to shoveling cow crap and haying, I was troubleshooting, repairing and maintaining the farm equipment.

That is why you were pulling in $7 per hour in 1972.

29 posted on 08/22/2023 6:32:52 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Allegra

I actually feel sorry for today’s workforce. I made around that 25 years ago in the middle of my professional career. Add in inflation and they have nowhere near the earning potential I had in my day and about 10 times the educational debt that someone who graduated in the 80’s did.


30 posted on 08/22/2023 6:44:20 AM PDT by Woodman
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To: Hambone 1934

Would be higher without visas importing folks. Maybe if we doubled the visas....


31 posted on 08/22/2023 6:47:25 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It ( )
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To: CodeToad

Stem?


32 posted on 08/22/2023 7:33:59 AM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: Crusher138

Was he an ISEF winner?


33 posted on 08/22/2023 7:45:44 AM PDT by gnickgnack2 ( Another bad day for Trump, he only got seven major things accomplished .)
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To: gnickgnack2
Was he an ISEF winner?

This wasn't ISEF. There were winners from all over the country who were flown into NM by NASA and brought to White Sands. Different experiments were put onto rockets and shot into non-orbital trajectories. My son's had to do with the effects of static electricity in space. This was when he was in middle school. A couple of years later he received an invitation to intern with NASA in Alabama, I believe.

34 posted on 08/22/2023 12:17:56 PM PDT by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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To: Olog-hai

Things must have come up a bunch since I retired in ‘13. I had been making $20/hr. for the last several years that i had worked as a skilled mechanic. However there are several tricks to that. First of all it is the rate per Flat Rate Hr. a book time for certain jobs where they figure how many hrs. & tenths it takes to do a job. This is usually pulled out of someone’s hat at the factory & is most certainly not always realistic, but it can vary either way. You have to be quite to actually make the hourly wage & if you are that fast, the job may suffer. Too many ways to cheat a tech with this method.


35 posted on 08/22/2023 4:06:30 PM PDT by oldtech
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