What is minimum wage?

[Riders]

I heard it went up to 12 bucks an hour is a company has more then 25 employees and 11 less the 25. has everyone complied are we really getting that as minimum wage? Its a huge hike.

Are fastfood places paying that amount just curious?

when it went up I think 5 to 6 bucks they started me at the old wage and said that because they have a high turn over rate , folks who start and quit a lot, so they start everyone out on the old wage, it was either the first 3 months or the first 6 months then change their wage to the new amount.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

One thing to keep in mind is that if one is even a day under 18, minimum wage doesn't seem to apply, so they could get payed significantly less.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

Actually, I stand corrected. Google says it's only a little less.

 

[Enoch07]

Minimum wage is the lowest amount you can offer to pay someone legally, aside from commission based and tip based work among a few other exceptions. Usually it is for low skill positions that require little to no education/training/experience. These jobs are usually given to young people who do not have much education/training/experience because they are young and haven't had time to develop these things yet.

You are not supposed to make a life long career in these starting positions. You are supposed to grow your education/training/experience while working these positions to move up to higher paid positions.

 

[Riders]

Minimum wage is the lowest amount you can offer to pay someone legally, aside from commission based and tip based work among a few other exceptions. Usually it is for low skill positions that require little to no education/training/experience. These jobs are usually given to young people who do not have much education/training/experience because they are young and haven't had time to develop these things yet.

You are not supposed to make a life long career in these starting positions. You are supposed to grow your education/training/experience while working these positions to move up to higher paid positions.

Thanks/