$7.25 Club of Shame (Federal Minimum)
Alabama
Georgia
Idaho
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
New Hampshire
North Caroline
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Wisconsin
Wyoming
And before anyone says “no one pays those wages anymore,” it’s true that I didn’t get paid $7.25 an hour when I first moved back to Indiana about 10 years ago.
I was paid $7.75 an hour. From a TV station. To shoot live news and sports, meaning traveling in weather no matter how dangerous for regional basketball games and seeing lots of dead bodies, then going back and editing two news shows every night before heading out again to shoot the next car crash.
And when I was up for a promotion, I was told I didn’t have the right attitude. Because my attitude was things like, “it’s blizzarding out right now. I really don’t think it’s safe for me to drive 50 miles down a 2-lane highway at night.” rather than, “sir yes sir!”
I left that job as soon as I could. To the other TV station in town. For a $10 an hour job making commercials.
These are jobs in L.A., where I used to live, that would pay you a high five-figure salary if not a six-figure one. And the weather is a lot safer to drive in.
Yep, Indiana sucks when it comes to pay. I’m sure those other states are just as bad.
Attitude and wages have a direct correlation. As an employer, you pay for the attitude you get.
You would think so, but the other people in the same job were gung-ho for it. It was bizarre. And I basically spent my evenings documenting tragedies when it wasn’t sports (and I hate sports), so it took a serious psychological toll, which it should have for anyone who wasn’t the apparent psychopaths I was working with.
outrageous, I can’t believe anyone in television journalism, a fairly high profile position, would be paid only $7.75 an hour. I often wonder how much those people on TV are earning. I always imagine theyre all multimillionaires in amazing houses with amazing cars.
It’s a small town, so I didn’t expect $90,000 a year or anything, but you’d think they’d pay a little more than they did. But I really needed a job at the time.
You missed Arkansas
Arkansas minimum is $11.00
Thanks I wonder why it was included on the info graphic as one of the states that had the fed minimum.
I didn’t see Virginia on your list, but it’s definitely not on the map in the article. Are they somewhere in-between?
Virginia is $12.00. The map from the article is just showing recent minimum wage hikes.
Upcoming wage hikes.
For example Massachusetts is also not there: we raised minimum wage in 2023 but do not have another raise coming in 2024
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…I make about $20 per hour as a surgical tech, and the cheapest apartments that are within the on-call response time radius of the hospital and don’t come with a realistic chance of getting shot while walking to or from the car; plus utilities, food, gas, etc… and there’s almost nothing left.
I could stretch it out a little by eating rice for every meal, but $7.50 per hour wouldn’t even cover rent. Splitting it with a roommate who also makes $7.50 per hour might just barely cover rent.
You’d need like 5 people sharing a single bedroom apartment and a car just have a roof over their head and food in their stomach.
…meanwhile we have oligarchs that make so much money that the number of dollars is literally beyond our brain’s ability to process.
We’re way overdue for guillotine day.
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Just lie on shit like that.
Scan your pay stubs and pop them into whichever art software you prefer (shout-out to getpaint.net).
Don’t type the numbers in, but copy the image of one digit at a time from other numbers in the document. Make sure to math any other values to match the new pay. Print that shit, and good to go.
Great when asking for a ‘match’ to your previous pay when starting a new job too - unless you’re state or federal, in which case that could land you in jail.
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this is great until they call up your employer or use a government agency to verify things
Then you don’t get that apt/job. Apply to more until it works.
I have nothing intelligent or insightful to say. I just fucking hate this country.
That’s okay. Me too!
That’s still a lot more intelligent and insightful than the lawmakers in the other 25 states.
"The 20 states where the baseline wage will remain at $7.25 an hour are primarily located in the South and Midwest, ranging from Alabama to Wisconsin. "
So, the states you thought weren’t getting the raise are the states that aren’t getting the raise, except Florida apparently!?If you’re making minimum look into operations/warehousing. It’s hard work but I literally can’t get people to show up for less than $25/hr. Suburbs of Chicago tho.
Manufacturing company I work for starts at a minimum of $20/hr for the lowest role, and that’s our nationwide lowest pay.
We are constantly hiring
Where would I go to find warehouse jobs?
Avoid retail because those jobs will be brutal and pay less. Check indeed for warehousing, the good jobs will be small businesses and 3PL as they both typically operate during normal business hours. Apply even if you don’t have experience, it’s not complicated work so… I can only speak for myself but I mostly look for aptitude, effort, and attention to detail.
We currently have 2 full-time jobs open and our 3PL is an hour away in the suburbs and they’re also struggling to find people, full time M-F. Obvious positions like receiving and pick/pack, forklift drivers, and also kitting/assembly, special projects like labelling, etc. It can be mind numbing work at times but if you stay open to trying new things you’ll end up doing something different every day and moving between departments. If you’re reliable and put in effort it’s easy to move into a supervisory role and salary can be anywhere from $50-$80k+ but 60k is typical.
I did all these things and I’m an operations manager now and make very good money. People see warehousing as a dead end job but honestly it opens a lot of doors into operations jobs.
They forgot Massachusetts. Yeah, we’re not raising minimum wage next year but it’s already $15/hr. We deserve to be listed as one of the
sixseven states with minimum wage twice the federal levelGo Sox!
The increases will boost the baseline pay to at least $16 an hour in three states: California, New York and Washington. In 22 states, the new minimum wages will take effect on January 1. However, Nevada and Oregon’s new rates will go into effect on July 1, while Florida’s will increase on September 30.
By contrast. workers in 20 states will still be subject to the federal minimum wage, which has stood at $7.25 an hour since 2009, when it was last increased.
Who’s getting a raise? No one probably. It won’t be enough to compensate for the lost wages to corporate greed “inflation”.
Still think we should just put all elected officials on the national minimum wage and watch how fast workers lives get better.
“You work a minimal effort job you get minimum wage.”
Explain to me again why I’m seeing machinists and web development jobs being posted for fucking $16/hr when that’s minimum wage?
Why are people who literally save fucking lives getting taco bell wages?
I love how there’s always a quote to justify shit wages that just completely flies in the face of reality.
I’d say minimal effort is simply owning a thing and paying other people to do the work for you. Sorry that making phone calls is so much work for you…
Why are people who literally save fucking lives getting taco bell wages?
In California, at least, the people who save lives will be guaranteed at least $1/hour more than what the Taco Bell employees are guaranteed in 2024.
Bout the same for EMTs, then.
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#Bidenomics
The increases will boost the baseline pay to at least $16 an hour in three states: California, New York, and Washington. In 22 states.
Not enough for those high-cost cities.
I just heard on the radio this morning that a newly elected South American president raised the baseline to a 2%. This percent means $460 a month!
fast food like McDonald’s and Jack in the Box and Burger King and Panera bread workers in California will have minimum wage of $20.
I live in Florida and minimum wage for most fast food restaurants is 16
That belt of white at the bottom… wonder if that area has a name?
The shit belt?
Republicans care SO MUCH about Workers that they aren’t Raising their Wages!
The argument is that raising wages would cost business owners too much. They would need to close up shop rather than pay higher wages, and then the workers aren’t making anything.
And there is some truth to that, unfortunately. Almost half of all private sector employees work for a small business. If small business labor costs doubled overnight, most could not absorb the additional expense and survive. You’d see a lot of places go belly up, and either nothing would replace them or large corporations that were able to absorb the labor costs would take over and raise prices to maintain their margin. A higher minimum wage just strengthens the position of the companies with enough capital to survive the change.
I agree that wages need to increase, but it’s a lot more complicated than just the government saying, “Hey! Pay them more!”
If small business labor costs doubled overnight
Then don’t do that. Every such minimum wage hike I looked at the details of phases it in over multiple years. I was by no means comprehensive, but it’s a logical compromise
Almost no small businesses pay minimum wage, though.
Right now, discussions about minimum wage are generally meaningless, because such a small portion of Americans makes minimum wage.
This is neither an argument for or against minimum wage, either. It’s just that minimum wage doesn’t really have the impact it’s touted to have.
Most successful Small Businesses already pay above Minimum Wage enough that an increase would only effect Corporate. But also by your Logic Competition shouldn’t exist because it would cause Small Businesses to shutter since they couldn’t weather the storm. Please have more faith in your local businesses and for Heaven’s Sake buy from them!
I love how the article doesn’t actually bother breaking out the minimum wage by state so you have to go searching if you actually want to know.
States raising the minimum wage in 2024
Here are the states that are boosting their minimum wages in 2024, along with the new baseline pay that will take effect next year. Most of the states will increase their baseline wage beginning in January, with increases in Florida, Nevada and Oregon going into effect later in 2024.
Alaska: $11.73
Arizona: $14.35
California: $16
Colorado: $14.42
Connecticut: $15.69
Delaware: $13.25
Florida: $13
Hawaii: $14
Illinois: $14
Maine: $14.15
Maryland: $15
Michigan: $10.33
Minnesota: $10.85
Missouri: $12.30
Montana: $10.30
Nebraska: $12
Nevada: $12
New Jersey: $15.13
New York: $16
Ohio: $10.45
Oregon: $14.20 plus an adjustment for inflation (TBD)
Rhode Island: $14
South Dakota: $11.20
Vermont: $13.67
Washington: $16.28
It was at the end of the article.
Proud to have the highest on that list, Washington is a pretty good state all things considered
What, you expect reporters to…report? /s
If you guys look at the article, the map with the green states is interactive and you can view what the new minimum will be by clicking a state.
They could have made it easy with a list. It’s a pain to have to click on every state.
Still a shit article when states not raising minimum wage in 2024 do not even exist, yet their values are very much relevant
Worth mentioning that Florida passed a law a couple years ago that has been raising the minimum wage by $1/hr every year until we get to $15/hr. Slowly is better than not at all. Nice to see Florida not last for once.
I wish most/all laws worked this way. We should be aiming for incremental changes over time instead of big bang ones that get undone after the next election.
Hell, for minimum wage though, it should always change based on cost of living as it continues to increase over time.
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But florida is rasist!! And bad!! How??? Lol
That’s pretty discriminatory of you
The states that could use the higher rate are the states that aren’t increasing the rate. I’m shocked.
Making the least money I’ve ever made, working harder than I ever have before, put out literally hundreds of applications over the past few months, have no criminal record, have lots of skills and good prior work history with lots of management experience and technical skills. Fuck Indiana with every ounce.
