Technically yes, but the federal minimum wage right now is $7.25/hr (with a few exceptions). Even full-time at this amount is poverty level in most of the country, and many places now pay more than this anyway, so it doesn’t actually do much. In fact, now it seems like companies can use it as a way to suppress wages by saying look, we’re offering you $12/hr, which is almost double the minimum wage! In reality, that’s still insufficient to live anywhere by yourself in basically the entire country
The minimum wage has been raised twice since 1997, for a total of $2.10. The last increase was in 2009. It now stands at $7.25 an hour.
30 states have established their own Minimum Wage higher than the Federal minimum, but 20 states remain at the Federal minimum, all Red states, of course:
I make slightly more than that in East Europe, which is more or less average here. Granted, that’s only the “official” job, second or freelance jobs are quite popular here. While my day job is at factory, my nighttime job is mostly around computers (my very first job was webdev)
You guys have law protected minimum wage?
Cries in Finland
Technically yes, but the federal minimum wage right now is $7.25/hr (with a few exceptions). Even full-time at this amount is poverty level in most of the country, and many places now pay more than this anyway, so it doesn’t actually do much. In fact, now it seems like companies can use it as a way to suppress wages by saying look, we’re offering you $12/hr, which is almost double the minimum wage! In reality, that’s still insufficient to live anywhere by yourself in basically the entire country
The minimum wage has been raised twice since 1997, for a total of $2.10. The last increase was in 2009. It now stands at $7.25 an hour.
30 states have established their own Minimum Wage higher than the Federal minimum, but 20 states remain at the Federal minimum, all Red states, of course:
I make slightly more than that in East Europe, which is more or less average here. Granted, that’s only the “official” job, second or freelance jobs are quite popular here. While my day job is at factory, my nighttime job is mostly around computers (my very first job was webdev)