Coming right up......McDonalds and Burger King paying each worker 63,000.....Flipping burgers never sounded soooo good....
What a misleading article! A white male age 45 either a skilled blue collar worker or middle management is probably making $65,000 plus benefits-the $70,000 salary is the minimum he would accept to change jobs.
It does not say anything about an entry level job for a high school student. Although in downeast Maine, entry level jobs at McDonalds are about $16-$18 an hour and includes a tuition reimbursement plan
Inflation is hitting everyone...
> Workers now demanding nearly $80K to start new job <
Wow. That’s around $40 an hour. My first real job was in 1972. I made $2.50 an hour. That’s about $18 an hour in 2023, after factoring in inflation.
I feel that I’ve been ripped off! I demand back pay, an apology, and a food voucher.
Oh, and free ice cream too. That would be nice.
When the whiners' tofu, arugula, and quinoa run out, and they're down to seeds and stems again too, they'll be singing a different tune.
That’s because the various governments and programs pay them almost that much to sit at home.
I was floored when I read full time UPS Drivers (I assume with a few years seniority) were being paid something like 180k
Feb 1973 made 8$ per hour building Challenger yachts.
I was taught a skill earlier in life. I went on to military, Blue color work and earned a STEM degree, to go to white collar work. Retired at age 55.
I may be an exception, but if you work at it America will pay you well. Democrat USA will grind you into toilet paper pulp
If you can’t get beyond their political BS.
Is Fox Bi-Polar or WHAT?
It’s like there are TWO Foxes.
Aren’t these classic free market transactions. Bidder and asker?
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
Snort.
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.
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.