Also in case anyone’s thinking “at least I never seen a job pay the federal minimum wage,” it’s where salary negotiations start from for a lot of immigrants, and can go up or down. I was paid $5/hour in my first warehouse job.
Still tons of jobs in my area that pay federal min wage for anyone who applies.
So so many people don’t live in big cities or rich states. Low cost of living areas are a trap that you’ll never save enough to get out of, if you were born into one to poor parents.
I’m not even an immigrant, but grew up in a small town, and I’ve worked minimum wage and ~$0.25 above minimum wage in quite a few factory, fast food, and grocery jobs. The gas needed to just get to work and back took a significant amount of my check. That combined with car insurance and maintenance probably took the majority of it.
Also in case anyone’s thinking “at least I never seen a job pay the federal minimum wage,” it’s where salary negotiations start from for a lot of immigrants, and can go up or down. I was paid $5/hour in my first warehouse job.
Still tons of jobs in my area that pay federal min wage for anyone who applies.
So so many people don’t live in big cities or rich states. Low cost of living areas are a trap that you’ll never save enough to get out of, if you were born into one to poor parents.
I’m not even an immigrant, but grew up in a small town, and I’ve worked minimum wage and ~$0.25 above minimum wage in quite a few factory, fast food, and grocery jobs. The gas needed to just get to work and back took a significant amount of my check. That combined with car insurance and maintenance probably took the majority of it.