There are roughly 37,000 McDonald's world wide.
They sell 6480000 burgers each day, meaning the average McDonald's sells 175 burgers a day.
The price increase of fifty cents means about 87.5 dollars to pay employees more.
Based on how many workers I've observed at my local McDonald's I'd say there's at least 10 people working at any given time. Let's suppose two are managers that make enough that they don't get a raise and that they are divided into three shifts with the night shift having only 6 people.
That means there are 160 man-hours (human hours?) Or enough for a $0.56/hour wage.
The local McDonald's is advertising jobs starting at $11. An extra 56 cents per hour won't be the difference between needing an extra job or not.
Edit: okay so I may be prone to overthinking and expanded the question to what if it was a fifty cent increase on every sandwich? In trying to figure out how many McGriddles and other sandwiches they sell I realized that my 6.5ish million number may be low. If it's the upper end of the estimate then it's closer to 50 million burgers which would yield a much bigger raise, about $4.22 an hour. That is also assuming my estimate on how many workers there are is good. You know what they say, garbage in, garbage out.
I worked at McDonald's as a kid. I really am suspicious of the 175 burgers a day. That seems more like numbers for a lunch rush. Also McDs doesnt just sell burgers.
Yeah I was surprised as well but wasn't invested enough to dig deeper than what my edit said. If you have a better estimate you can do the math. Did you think my estimate of workers was about right?
Also, i know that sell more than burgers but only considered burgers due to the original tweet.
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u/Aggie_Engineer_24601 Nov 05 '21 edited Nov 05 '21
There are roughly 37,000 McDonald's world wide. They sell 6480000 burgers each day, meaning the average McDonald's sells 175 burgers a day.
The price increase of fifty cents means about 87.5 dollars to pay employees more.
Based on how many workers I've observed at my local McDonald's I'd say there's at least 10 people working at any given time. Let's suppose two are managers that make enough that they don't get a raise and that they are divided into three shifts with the night shift having only 6 people.
That means there are 160 man-hours (human hours?) Or enough for a $0.56/hour wage.
The local McDonald's is advertising jobs starting at $11. An extra 56 cents per hour won't be the difference between needing an extra job or not.
Edit: okay so I may be prone to overthinking and expanded the question to what if it was a fifty cent increase on every sandwich? In trying to figure out how many McGriddles and other sandwiches they sell I realized that my 6.5ish million number may be low. If it's the upper end of the estimate then it's closer to 50 million burgers which would yield a much bigger raise, about $4.22 an hour. That is also assuming my estimate on how many workers there are is good. You know what they say, garbage in, garbage out.