Poll of the Day > Minimum wage Job

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Minimum wage job

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My first job paid slightly over minimum wage, so technically no. But close! It was within a dollar an hour, but I'm not 100% sure on what the difference was.

First job was minimum wage at a movie theater

for a dumb 16 year old though getting to see free movies made it worth it

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I have one now.

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I've had several.

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Had a few. All were when I was a teen

No. When I was in college and worked retail it was always a little above the minimum wage.

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Working for minimum AGE is beneath me. The "INF" in infants is for INFERIOR!

I have had quite a few under min wage, including in the past few years.

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I haven't worked a minimum wage job, only below minimum... 'cuz tip culture

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My first job was 6.25 when I worked there. Ended up making 17something by the time I left.

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Sure, I got my first job at 15 washing dishes

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When I got my first job, minimum wage was $5.55 and I started at $6.

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all jobs are min wage now
you just work more hours/days to compensate

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I worked a few between high school and college. I also worked jobs paying less than minimum wage.

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I make below minimum wage + tips when delivering, although its minimum wage when i'm not on a delivery.


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The federal minimum wage or the actual minimum wage.

No always made more.

dedbus posted...

The federal minimum wage or the actual minimum wage.

Most of us are old enough that at least at the start of our working lives, it was the same.

But I would guess local min wage is what the question is asking, alot of people in their 20's and 30's probably had a higher state min wage than fed, so couldn't work a job at fed minimum wage without moving.

Back in my day....slightly after the dinos, everywhere basically had fed min wage, even california etc. On the plus side even under the table jobs paid pretty close to min wage back then because you couldn't go much lower.

Back when I started working in 81, fed min wage and california min wage was $3.35 an hour and both didn't go up till 88, since I was 11 at the time I could only get jobs working under the table at christmas tree lots, washing dishes, mowing lawns etc, but you still usually got around $3 an hour.

4 years later at 15 I was able to get jobs working construction though, min wage still wouldn't go up for 4 more years, but instead of getting 3$ an hour under the table I was making $10.....and it seriously rocked. It's why I cut school until they were going to send me to a "problem school" called robertson (after skipping tons of days and then skipping saturday detentions). Working construction was just too lucrative. I ended up goign to a private school were I worked as a janitor and graduated on my 16th birthday. No way I would have finished HS if I didn't find a method to do it VERY fast (4 years in less than 1 year).

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No. Closest thing was a paid internship that didn't pay too much more than minimum though.

Up until college, my jobs were all under minimum wage. Then when I was in college I started making more then minimum wage.

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Lokarin posted...

I haven't worked a minimum wage job, only below minimum... 'cuz tip culture

Still minimum wage. They have a different minimum and iirc the employer has to make up the difference to regular minimum if tips didnt cover it. You probably got more unless it was a shitty resturaunt or you where bad at your job.

Tends to bug cooks actually that they just their ass in a hot kitchen and thr wait staff typically takes home more money.

I do have sympathy though. I couldnt handle not having a very good idea how much money im gonna make a month and then it also being less during certian parts of the year just cause seasonal shit.

On topic. Yes both full time and part time. So glad thats behind me. I work a job thats 100 times easier and I get like 6 times more

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My first job was a tutor at my trade school that paid min wage.

Second job was entry level mechanic at sears that paid min wage of $7.50 an hour. I was switched to commission after only 2 month. Now I was paid $5.00 an hour plus whatever jobs I got. I was given so many lame jobs and warranty work that every pay check had to be bumped up because I was not making enough per hour to meet min wage. Warranty jobs only paid 10 cents per job for tires and 5 cents for batteries. So, if someone came in with a flat tire and it takes 30 mins to repair the tire, you made $2.60 in 30 mins. I tend to get assigned warranty jobs back to back. Service writers played favorites at that location.

This was 11 years ago. Now min wage is $12 an hour and is going up to $12.50 in July.

mooreandrew58 posted...

unless it was a s***ty resturaunt o

Was a Bingo hall, actually

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Lokarin posted...

Was a Bingo hall, actually

Ah not used to dealing with tip culture outside food joints.

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mooreandrew58 posted...

Ah not used to dealing with tip culture outside food joints.

Basically I would push the cart around a couple hundred people and I'd dish out coffee and I'd get some loose change every pass

edit: because you tip to the tip cup and you aren't always at the same cart throughout the day, tips are split

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Lokarin posted...

Basically I would push the cart around a couple hundred people and I'd dish out coffee and I'd get some loose change every pass

Yeah that sounds like a shitty job for tipping. At resturants you can at least argue its motive to have a more pleasent attitude and always stay on top of making sure they are kept happy. The pleasent attitude thing being something the boss cant always keep tabs on if you actually do it or not. Surely if you slack off on passing out coffee the boss would eventually catch on.

Now pizza delivery drivers I will always tip unless a day comes they get company vehichles to deliver in. I see the tip as something to go towards their gas , wear and tearon their car

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mooreandrew58 posted...

Yeah that sounds like a shitty job for tipping. At resturants you can at least argue its motive to have a more pleasent attitude and always stay on top of making sure they are kept happy. The pleasent attitude thing being something the boss cant always keep tabs on if you actually do it or not. Surely if you slack off on passing out coffee the boss would eventually catch on.

Now pizza delivery drivers I will always tip unless a day comes they get company vehichles to deliver in. I see the tip as something to go towards their gas , wear and tearon their car

Ya, the Bingo Hall job was my one and only job - it's what lead to my Schizoid/Autism diagnoses. Because I was in a rural town before internet (at the time) no one really knew what most mental illnesses were

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In washington you get Min wage + tips and yeah, it sucks to be a cook at most places here. A few split the tips, but most give at most 10% to the non-waiters (And that is if the waiters actually turn in the cash tips).

Had a friend who got tips over $200 a night for working 6 hours. I looked into working at the same place as a cook (be cool to work with a friend AND get to cook!).

Turns out the cooks in the back split 10% of the tips of the wait staff between all of them (always at least 2, sometimes 4). Meanwhile there was sometimes only 1 waiter and usually only 2.

That is why he got so many tips lol, but yeah, he would get angry if he got less than 200 and didn't count the "base pay" at all (Even though it was $70 or so!!). Feel really sorry for the cooks at places like that, you work super hard, in a hot kitchen, way more per table then the waiters, and get a fraction of the pay.

Really not fair. It's why I'm not doing a cook job right now actually.

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wolfy42 posted...

In washington you get Min wage + tips and yeah, it sucks to be a cook at most places here. A few split the tips, but most give at most 10% to the non-waiters (And that is if the waiters actually turn in the cash tips).

Had a friend who got tips over $200 a night for working 6 hours. I looked into working at the same place as a cook (be cool to work with a friend AND get to cook!).

Turns out the cooks in the back split 10% of the tips of the wait staff between all of them (always at least 2, sometimes 4). Meanwhile there was sometimes only 1 waiter and usually only 2.

That is why he got so many tips lol, but yeah, he would get angry if he got less than 200 and didn't count the "base pay" at all (Even though it was $70 or so!!). Feel really sorry for the cooks at places like that, you work super hard, in a hot kitchen, way more per table then the waiters, and get a fraction of the pay.

Really not fair. It's why I'm not doing a cook job right now actually.

Yeah I never wanna do it again. Even though I get paid a lot more now when I first got sent to the kitchen and all i had to do was stand in a corner and "supervise" first words out of my mouth where "I didnt take this job just to end up in a fucking kitchen again".

Idk kitchens (aside from home kitchens) give me this odd feeling I wouldnt call it anxiety but its similar.

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Yes; my first two jobs were minimum-wage positions.

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