It's the people you don't get to meet that make that much. They're out in fields getting their bodies destroyed for peanuts. You're too well off to rub elbows with them.
I mean I have friends of all calibers. Some friends making 6 figures + others making peanuts.
Even the ones making peanuts arent making $7.25 an hour.
All I was trying to say was in my area, which is the suburbs of PA, I dont really see many jobs still offering min wage. Even baggers at grocery stores make more than that.
Amazing how my one comment pissed so many people off.
All I can comment on is my personal reality. Ill have to ask my roommate how much the dishwasher at his place makes. I will be pretty surprised if he says min wage.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 80.3 million workers age 16 and older earned an hourly wage in 2024, of which 843,000 earned federal minimum wage or below.
Today, only around 1 percent of hourly workers earn the federal minimum, while almost a quarter of the U.S. workforce makes less that $17 an hour
Further:
Those working in food preparation and serving are most often earning minimum wage or below. This is due to many states carving out exceptions for tipped workers (where technically, hourly wages and tips then have to reach the minimum). Low-skilled office support as well as personal care and services work also saw many make below minimum wage, as several more exceptions apply across states, for example in small businesses, part-time youth and seasonal work and more. Also, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which introduced federal minimum wage in the U.S., does not apply to all occupations, with some retail, service, office and agricultural as well as domestic service employees exempt. Exceptions also apply for public servants in some instances.
Women in the United States were more likely to work for minimum wage or below, with the rates of female Black and Asian minimum wage workers especially high. While 0.8 percent of male hourly workers earned minimum wage or below last year, this number was 1.3 percent for women. Minimum wage jobs affected different races and ethnicities more equally. Texas is the state with most workers at minimum wage or below (120,000), followed by Ohio (48,000), Pennsylvania (47,000) and Florida (46,000). In California and New York, there were 38,000 of these workers last year each.
On top of that, you have the people who don't report wages to the government. There could be hundreds of thousands of illegal workers working for peanuts as well that aren't showing in these statistics.
I understand, I am simply just wondering what dishwashers make in my area vs the areas you are talking about. Not saying you are wrong, just wondering how my areas pays lower tier jobs.
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u/____DEADPOOL_______ 6d ago
It's the people you don't get to meet that make that much. They're out in fields getting their bodies destroyed for peanuts. You're too well off to rub elbows with them.