Minimum Wage Stuff
I was trying to figure out what the minimum wage was back when I moved up here. I worked a few minimum wage jobs back then and before. This Department of Labor web site shows it being less than I remember working for, but the DOL is listing federal minimum wage, not state. I'm thinking it was somewhere around $2.50 an hour. I suppose it could have been less?
Wikipedia has a whole bunch of info on minimum wage including a map that shows what states have minimum wages that are higher, equal to, or lower than the federal minimum wage. Some don't have a minimum wage.
posted by Fred Mangels @ 8:21 AM
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Wonder how much McDonalds would pay if there was no minimum wage? Wonder how much they would need to offer to get reasonably competent employees?
Yep. You have to wonder. If they don't offer enough they wouldn't get any applicants, or so I would think.
Worked 48 hours a week through the summer of 1974 to save-up for starting college that fall. Minimum wage: $1.65 an hour.
"Worked 48 hours a week through the summer of 1974 to save-up for starting college that fall. Minimum wage: $1.65 an hour."
That rings a bell, but I thought that might have been before I moved up here in '73. I'll take your word for it.
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