minimum wage

[blcklblskt]

Thought I's fire up an old topic. Right now in NJ it sits at $7.25/hour. When I got my first job it was $5.15

It is rising to like $8 soon.

[Izret101]

its around 6.50 here in mass

I believe we are up to 8$s an hour now.

[Zagnorch P. Welinskivich II, Esq.]

[The Metamorphosing Leon]

I don't even know anymore. It was like 5 something when I started working, which seems crazy.

[Barracuda]

I believe it's $7.25 an hour in Wisconsin. I know it was $5.15 when I got my first job.

[bickman2k]

It was $5.15 in Kansas when I started working as well. It's now $7.25.

[The Metamorphosing Leon]

Stupid how you make less working 40 hours a week at minimum wage than the government will pay you to be unemployed or "disabled."

[Cobra]

Same story that Arrrhalomynn mentioned over here in Australia. Minimum changes based on age. But here it doesn't apply to apprentices. They have a separate award that goes up based on the years they have been an apprentice.

Under 16 years of age  $5.87
At 16 years of age   $7.55
At 17 years of age   $9.22
At 18 years of age   $10.90
At 19 years of age   $13.17
At 20(+) years of age   $15.59.

Year 1 of apprenticeship $10.22
Year 2 of apprenticeship $12.08
Year 3 of apprenticeship $14.87
Year 4 of apprenticeship $17.65.

[techwizard]

i like that system