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Florida’s Minimum Wage Workers Just Got A Raise
October 2, 2022
The second of six yearly increases to Florida’s minimum wage has gone into effect.
The previous minimum wage of $10 per hour increased by $1 to $11 per hour. The rate for tipped workers went from $6.98 an hour to $7.98 per hour.
In November 2020, Florida voters approved changes to the state’s minimum wage, which will gradually increase from $8.65 an hour in 2020 to $15 an hour by September 2026.
The current federal minimum wage, which neighboring Alabama follows, is $7.25 an hour.
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20 Responses to “Florida’s Minimum Wage Workers Just Got A Raise”
REGARDING:
“But the punishment for being unlucky shouldn’t be a lifetime of poverty.”
Fortune favors the prepared.
Which is to say, where you end is not determined by where you begin but where you go from there. Wealth seldom lasts more than three generations in any given family. Poverty is not thought of as a choice, but those who decide they have already lost and choose to not try succeed in failing.
Consider how wrong I am as long as you wish, then think if there might be a tiny bit of truth to the idea that those who never try have already failed and those who never quit never fall until they die — and often they win.
David for reality
Imagine looking at a minimum wage employee and thinking “you don’t deserve to live”.
@David Huie Green
Yeah, that’s how the world works. Who you know is significantly more important than what you know.
There are millions of college graduates who have degrees that can’t find a job that pays a living wage. There are also millions of people without higher education who draw six-figure salaries.
Life will always deal us random hands. Some people will be born into wealthy families, others will be born into poor families. But the punishment for being unlucky shouldn’t be a lifetime of poverty.
Well if worked and paid in and have retired and live on your Social Security your screwed here in Florida as COLA for Social Security is based on national average for inflation and not a state doubling it’s minimum wage. Now everything will cost more because of such high wages. Think about now,skilled workers that were making $15-$20 an hour will now have to be making $30+ an hour to keep up,but on Social Security we won’t get Squat.
REGARDING ”
“Only the
Well connected get a good job.”
“You are well connected. I’ll make you a brain surgeon. YOU are well connected, I’ll make you a venture capitalist. You are not well connected, I’ll make you a ditch digger even though you studied nuclear physics. YOU are well connected, I’ll make you a major league baseball player…..”
Me not think so.
David for sanity
Try having waitresses that you have to pay 7.98 an hour knowing they are making $30.00 an hour or more in tips.
@Robert Hudson
I used to have a Russian roommate. One night, we were talking about the Cold War, and he told me that he would often see propaganda showing poor neighborhoods in America and how impoverished we were in the US.
That propaganda had the opposite effect. He and his family were impressed that even poor people in America could buy two cars, a house, and provide for their family.
Somehow, our country lost its way. We’re now squabbling over whether our working class deserves to have luxuries like “affordable rent”, “clean water”, or “food”.
When the poor couldn’t afford their basic needs in Rome, or France, or Russia, they revolted. I wonder what will happen this time?
Once corporate interests gained the ear of members of Congress, all of a sudden the floodgates of corporate dollars into our elections started to crack. A few futile stopgaps were tried by bipartisan representatives, but ultimately the Supreme Court ruled that corporations were people and could donate money without disclosure.
This was the Citizens United case– you should read about it.
I worked on jobs with people who didn’t have enough sense to obtain a minimum
Wage job but they knew someone to help them get a high wage job. Escambia
county is full of minimum wage jobs. Only the
Well connected get a good job.
So what is minimum wage? It is exactly what it says. Not to make a living on. Those are called skills. Skills pay far more. But it involves working for it. And also a living wage? By who’s standards? Some people will spend more than they have, and demand more. That leads to entitlement. Well, this old world , and Mother Nature owe you nothing. Just remember, a government that gives you every thing , can take it away, Be a thinker, question what you hear, Be a free thinker.
This disconnect between business owners and labor was set in stone when “incorporating the business” became the norm– a corporation’s primary function is to make money, without regard to the health of the society, and allowed “boards of directors” primary authority over business decisions. All in the name of more profit– for the big bosses and the shareholders. While average wage earners we’re quickly left behind.
And we became drones working for a faceless machine.
@NPC
The problem is that many businesses that pay minimum wage tend to keep their employees at the minimum wage. This bootstrapping nonsense is a myth.
@ Jason
“Half of them are too stupid to do anything more.”
That comment alone proves your point.
I love the sentiment of the uneducated. “If you want to make more money, go somewhere that pays more”. The very same people when those employees refuse to work for peanuts…”No one wants to work any more”. Businesses are not entitled to exploit labor. The free market works in both directions. You offer a service, you charge a price for that service. If you don’t want to sell your soul for $10 an hour, you’re free to pursue better opportunities. But if you’re a small business that can’t exist without paying starvation wages, you’re not entitled to a business. Likewise, no one owes you anything. Those same people that work for minimum wage often have to use government assistance to survive. We pay for that in our taxes. Meaning you, the people they convinced to hate minimum wage labor, are bankrolling billion dollar businesses. Way to let the capitalists utilize free welfare! You showed them.
“In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By business I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living.”
-FDR, on the creation of a minimum wage
Yall say these jobs are entry level. Beginner jobs. But have you seen the people in this world today? Half of them are too stupid to do anything more.
This is going to drastically affect the businesses. So when all of you who voted for this are paying $8.00 for a gallon of milk don’t complain.
Meanwhile everyone else just took another pay cut. Inflation is bad enough right now. It has taken almost three years worth of my raises away and now this extra dollar an hour is just going to cause everything to go up even more. While entry level jobs are enjoying raises we who have been on our jobs for years are losing money. Not to mention that all of those entry level jobs like fast food and retail cashiers are getting these raises and their service sucks worse now than ever because they’re the ones that have been given control just so businesses can be open.
Bob. Minimum wage jobs are not intended to support a family and never have been. They are entry level positions to educate those entering the workforce. Continuing education and training allows promotions, increased skills and knowledge which increases pay. Anyone trying to survive on minimum wage jobs will find it highly unlikely because that waa never their purpose.
How is anyone surviving on $11/hour in Pensacola?!