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A tweet saying "100k a year to take someone's order at Taco Bell . Totally makes sense.". It has a reply saying "Where the hell did you get that number? If someone's working enough hours to make that on $15 an hour, they deserve it. $15 an hour, a person working 40 a week makes $31,200 a year." the reply has 2 likes.
Apparently
Lots of great comments in here but somehow no one brought up that the federal minimum wage is still only $7.25/hr.
Some moron on Facebook was talking about how Trump raised the minimum wage because major brands like Walmart started paying $15 an hour (or whatever specific amount) at the lowest they offer new hires. I told her that, no, that's not what "raising the minimum wage" means. She insisted that because of Trump's brilliant economic prowess it allowed these companies to pay more.
Like, yeah, turns out of the federal minimum wage is so low that basically no one wants to work for it then people need to pay more to get workers. (I'm aware people still work for the actual minimum wage in case that isn't somehow abundantly clear.)
Most Americans are idiots.
7.25, including tips.
Usually with tips it's like $2.13 or something. For wait staff that gets tips they're allowed to be paid less hourly. Their total pay for the day still has to be at least the federal minimum wage though.
Tips are so weird.
The federal tipping wage is only $2.13. If that plus tips isn’t at least $7.25 then the employer is suppose to bridge the gap. That’s hard to track especially with cash tips so I’m sure you can guess how often that happens…
Also, I have seen this happen at multiple chain casual dining restaurants, if you do manage to track it, and they have to make up the difference more than once, they will fire you on the spot. They claim that only bad servers can't make tips. The fact that this exclusively happened to male servers is not important according to Big Boy.