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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
$15.20/hr is (very) firmly below the poverty line in Calgary. Not sure about BC or wherein BC but it definitely is a very far cry from “a ton of money”.
In fact there’s a chance you may be able to beg on the street and get that and dictate your own hours.
My brother cannot keep staff at $20/hr to cut lawns.
You know people like to criticize oil and gas workers for being paid so much but it’s actually more that any other industry, equally or more profitable, pay their staff outrageously low. Look at banking for example. Record profits billions every quarter and they pay like absolute garbage. It’s actually unbelievable people put up with that crap but at the end of the day it’s just the labour market I guess.
Large companies need to pay more and realize that business is not exclusively at the behest of shareholders but of stakeholders of which employees are one of…………… organizations that treat / pay employees badly I kind of hope go bankrupt and I definitely refuse to invest in them.
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$15.12 is below poverty. $18 dollars an hour is considered a minimum to make to make a living wage 8n most places. $20 in Victoria , Vancouver and surrounding areas. That's if you just want to cover the basics. Rent(not home ownership, bills and food.
80 hours at $15.12 is just hovering at 1000 bucks a cheque after everything gets taken off. $ 2000 bucks a month dosent buy very much these days. Rents expensive, Food prices have continually risen, you need some sort of transportation, utility's have risen etc etc.
15.12 to many owners always seem to " wow! If I had that in the 80 and 90s I'd have been set!" Then they also say "we'll I can't afford more because my costs have gone up!" And that's kind of the point. If you start paying more to employees that they can actually afford to save AND have extra cash to spend on things than the business everywhere could afford to pay people more because people would have more to spend that would cover higher wages and the higher operating costs. Etc etc...