Same here in Chicago. One of the bigger Facebook groups for job postings in the city has a lot of push from members to increase the low limit on wages job postings must meet (currently at $15/hr, I think). It's also getting a lot of push now that Chicago's minimum wage is at $15/hr across the board. We've had a lot of people leave the industry from the freelance side due to lack of work (obviously) but also because of cost of living and not wanting to break themselves for minimum wage anymore. All of it totally justified in my opinion.In Toronto, Canada here.
The going rate is $24.00 (~$19.00 USD) to $26.00 (20.50 USD).
There are of course the smaller companies that dip below $20.00 and outside of the City proper it drops.
There has been a lot of interesting discussions locally during the pandemic around living wages (and Toronto is expensive) as well as quality of life in the industry
Starting for my job is ~$17/hr and that's managing a HS baby PAC plus booking/TD and teaching tech. That with benefits is still ahead of most of the other stuff I've seen around town. Florida sucks.The survey doesn't go low enough for Florida.../sigh
In Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, IA129 had a pool of off-shift steel workers. Hamilton had several major employers, two of which were large steel mills; blast furnaces, coke ovens, manufacturing ingots, then rolling them through rolling mills, thinning them to specific gauges, trimming to specific widths, galvanizing, and re-rolling to specified lengths for shipping.Do you all have a pool of kid workers or adult workers? Or both?
I'm sure they were ex-HS kids as well.I know a few HS and ex-HS kids that could fit this bill!
Absolutely. I used to do the same thing, if it was 40 hours (when has it EVER been 40 hours) it came to about $14 an hour. Now (Arts college, teach lighting Y& sound, and I'm the go-to person for the facility) I make a whopping $24 with a MFA...again, assuming I'm only working 40 hours. Fortunately, I love my job, my coworkers & my students. (kick ass benefits though!)Florida sucks.
That's what has me hanging on. I've never worked with better people, and I'm earning a pension, so it's not awful. One positive thing was the fact that we were moved from salaried, OT Exempt to hourly OT non-exempt two-ish years back. At least I can try to quit at 40 most of the time and when I can't it's actually compensated.Fortunately, I love my job, my coworkers & my students. (kick ass benefits though!)
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