I can tell you with most certainty the defacto minimum wage in Utah is $15.00 an hour-and we are one of the fastest growing states in the country. If you don't pay $15.00-you don't have employees-so tell me where the minimum wage is? It's the current situation-not the State or Federal governments setting the wage. BTW- will all due respect-I'm not saying it's GOOD OR BAD-but it's reality. Anybody could come here TOMORROW and get a job for $15.00 an hour.
On edit-watching the local news tonight-they mentioned the following
Costco is raising starting wage to $17.00/hr
Raising Canes (Chicken/fast Food) $15.00/hr
Starbucks $17.00/hr.
Don't know if this is Utah only or national.
Didn't mean to give you a hard time here CKN. Sorry if it seemed like that.
It's sort of that way here in my area too.
I'm with you on that.
Are the people who were making $16-17 an hour will THEY get a pay raise commensurate to a level to what they were making prior to this increase ?
Aka 30-32 dollars an hour....
Never going to happen.
It's not helping to those people. It's not.
My wife started a 2nd job at Cole Haan making $9 an hour 7 years ago. Now she is at $14.50. She said what you have stated... Which is true... People working at Target or a number of other places are making the same as she is. And they are roopty Doo high school kids...
It is quite deflating to people like her. And there's no increase at all for people like her. She is a high school teacher with a master's degree and has certification to teach community college classes has well. Thank goodness the second job is not a primary one.