Minimum Wage Increase Makes 2 Pizzas Affordable

Published on July 27, 2009 By MinionMonitor In Work Reports

Money: minimum wage just went up $0.70 to $7.25/hour. So that’s about $28 bucks a week before taxes, or a couple of large pizzas, hold the extra cheese.

When the lowest paid Minion gets about $7/hour and the average CEO gets north of $2,500/hour, our pay scale is whacked. But heck, that’s America. Right or wrong?

(p.s. the minimum wage increase doesn’t affect tip servers and in most states they’re getting paid just $2.13/hour. So tip your waitress like you mean it.)

Comments

CharlesCS

on Jul 27, 2009

Well, when you have a country full of people happy with working minimum wage jobs and God forbid they aspire to better without waiting for the Gov't to hand it to them on a silver platter, 2 large pizza's sound pretty good to them right now.

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