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Originally Posted by Buff
Depends on the years he worked.
In 1981 minimum wage in Alberta was $3.80. It went up to $4.50 in 1988 and then $5.00 in 1992. $5.40 in 1998 and then $5.90 by end of 1999. It was still under $10 in 2011 and slowly crept up to $15 in 2015 and it sits there today.
So, if he worked there in the early/mid 2000s and he made double minimum wage... that's obscenely well compensated for that era.
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Originally Posted by timun
^^Was literally just looking this up myself.^^ 
Early 2000s I remember was $5.90/hr, so if Locke was making >$10... yeah, that was absurdly well-paid at the time. |
Again, the legal minimum wage is not always an accurate barometer of what is or isn’t a decent or reasonable wage.
I don’t know if you guys know what the words obscene or absurd mean but the wages he was getting paid were not out of the norm of what many other “unskilled” manual labour jobs were paying at the time. Maybe you’re just not aware of that?
By your theory you’d have to consider someone earning double the minimum wage of $7/hour in both 2005 and 2006 to be receiving an “obscenely” or “absurdly” high wage during both of those years, ignoring all inflation related factors such as housing prices in Calgary going from an average of around $250k in 2005 to around $350k in 2006.