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Originally Posted by indes
I'm 32 and I made 8$/hr working part time while in college. The equivalent today would be 10.48. 50% more buying power sounds like a lot to me but maybe I'm old fashioned. I didn't clarify that by 'young adults' I meant 18-23, looking for money for beer and gas.
I'm not trying to insinuate that $15.20 is a living wage, but to be washing dishes or cooking 20 hours a week for beer money it seems pretty good to me. I can't even find decent servers and they do 35-60$/hr in tips on the weekend. Thats insane money and I still can't find people who are reliable and motivated.
I just hope the end of CERB will bring people back to work. I also hope the line of thinking that my restaurant should support every employee, their family and set them up for retirement goes out the window too but I doubt it.
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I do think that a lot of people got hosed during their youth with a terrible minimum wage so they think $15 or whatever it is now seems crazy.
I don't believe the cutting of benefits has changed in some US states has changed much in terms of labour supply, so not sure CERB is going to lead to people knocking down your door. Big demand for workers so people can be picky with where they work.