$7.25 Club of Shame (Federal Minimum)
Alabama
Georgia
Idaho
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
New Hampshire
North Caroline
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Wisconsin
Wyoming
And before anyone says “no one pays those wages anymore,” it’s true that I didn’t get paid $7.25 an hour when I first moved back to Indiana about 10 years ago.
I was paid $7.75 an hour. From a TV station. To shoot live news and sports, meaning traveling in weather no matter how dangerous for regional basketball games and seeing lots of dead bodies, then going back and editing two news shows every night before heading out again to shoot the next car crash.
And when I was up for a promotion, I was told I didn’t have the right attitude. Because my attitude was things like, “it’s blizzarding out right now. I really don’t think it’s safe for me to drive 50 miles down a 2-lane highway at night.” rather than, “sir yes sir!”
I left that job as soon as I could. To the other TV station in town. For a $10 an hour job making commercials.
These are jobs in L.A., where I used to live, that would pay you a high five-figure salary if not a six-figure one. And the weather is a lot safer to drive in.
Yep, Indiana sucks when it comes to pay. I’m sure those other states are just as bad.
Attitude and wages have a direct correlation. As an employer, you pay for the attitude you get.
You would think so, but the other people in the same job were gung-ho for it. It was bizarre. And I basically spent my evenings documenting tragedies when it wasn’t sports (and I hate sports), so it took a serious psychological toll, which it should have for anyone who wasn’t the apparent psychopaths I was working with.
I didn’t see Virginia on your list, but it’s definitely not on the map in the article. Are they somewhere in-between?
Virginia is $12.00. The map from the article is just showing recent minimum wage hikes.
…I make about $20 per hour as a surgical tech, and the cheapest apartments that are within the on-call response time radius of the hospital and don’t come with a realistic chance of getting shot while walking to or from the car; plus utilities, food, gas, etc… and there’s almost nothing left.
I could stretch it out a little by eating rice for every meal, but $7.50 per hour wouldn’t even cover rent. Splitting it with a roommate who also makes $7.50 per hour might just barely cover rent.
You’d need like 5 people sharing a single bedroom apartment and a car just have a roof over their head and food in their stomach.
…meanwhile we have oligarchs that make so much money that the number of dollars is literally beyond our brain’s ability to process.
We’re way overdue for guillotine day.
Just lie on shit like that.
Scan your pay stubs and pop them into whichever art software you prefer (shout-out to getpaint.net).
Don’t type the numbers in, but copy the image of one digit at a time from other numbers in the document. Make sure to math any other values to match the new pay. Print that shit, and good to go.
Great when asking for a ‘match’ to your previous pay when starting a new job too - unless you’re state or federal, in which case that could land you in jail.
this is great until they call up your employer or use a government agency to verify things
I have nothing intelligent or insightful to say. I just fucking hate this country.
"The 20 states where the baseline wage will remain at $7.25 an hour are primarily located in the South and Midwest, ranging from Alabama to Wisconsin. "
So, the states you thought weren’t getting the raise are the states that aren’t getting the raise, except Florida apparently!?
They forgot Massachusetts. Yeah, we’re not raising minimum wage next year but it’s already $15/hr. We deserve to be listed as one of the six seven states with minimum wage twice the federal level
