Minimum wage

[kenny thomas]

With the discussion on another thread of labor costs i wondered what some states minimum wage was.
Can you get labor for minimum wage in your area.
It shows Georgia and Wyoming at $5.15 an hour and Washington DC at $17.50. Here in Virginia its $12 but going up to $12.41 January 1st.
I can't hire dependable farm labor for any price here anymore.

 

[504RP]

I think is how it is every where anymore regardless of what line of work you are hiring someone for. And I don’t think if minimum wage was raised to $ 40 per hour it wouldn’t matter.

 

[Lucky]

Farm and Ranch help here is around $16 for people that have seen tractor and $20 for someone that knows how to start it. The crazy thing I find is trying to show someone how to feed cattle. I always though any idiot could feed a cow but apparently it's a fairly complicated process to drive a truck next to troughs and drag a couple bales until they stop unrolling.

 

[GBRfarmer15]

With the discussion on another thread of labor costs i wondered what some states minimum wage was.
Can you get labor for minimum wage in your area.
It shows Georgia and Wyoming at $5.15 an hour and Washington DC at $17.50. Here in Virginia its $12 but going up to $12.41 January 1st.
I can't hire dependable farm labor for any price here anymore.

Many- and I mean many- people here in Nebraska are going the route of South Africans for farm/ranch labor.

 

[Travlr]

With the discussion on another thread of labor costs i wondered what some states minimum wage was.
Can you get labor for minimum wage in your area.
It shows Georgia and Wyoming at $5.15 an hour and Washington DC at $17.50. Here in Virginia its $12 but going up to $12.41 January 1st.
I can't hire dependable farm labor for any price here anymore.

I don't know the official figure, but I tried to hire a high school kid that needed money to help me make some Youtube videos and we agreed on a price of $20 an hour with a guarantee of $2500 for five fifteen minute videos once they were posted... and he bailed out after two and a half hours with him just telling me how to do things that I wanted to learn before we started.

 

[farmerjan]

We can occasionally get a couple guys wanting some cash money on the side to work some on the weekends.. $20 hr... but mostly there aren't too many of them.... and now that the holidays are pretty much done... probably no one wanting to work again....

 

[SBMF 2015]

January 1, 2025 Illinois minimum wage goes to $15. It’s $14 now.

 

[jltrent]

Do you want fries with that for $12/hr. The problem I see as the way of most jobs, especially low skilled will disappear as AI will be doing them. With the Robot technology, drones, auto drivers, etc. they can replace just about every job in time.

 

[Brute 23]

Texas is only $7.25 which is crazy.

If you are super young and just learning how to work and do stuff $10-12. If you drive to work for me it's automatically $15/hr. If you can do stuff on your own and are pretty good $20-25. If you are doing skilled work like carpentry, plumbing, mechanic work, etc that I would have to pay some one to come out and do, we can negotiate a price.

 

[cowman82]

It's 12.50 here set to go to like 16 soon.

I can go uptown to the gas station and get a job starting out at 20/hr. its pretty high wages around here. I saw the buccceeees hiring for 24/hr

everyone wants a lot to do anything here. need something welded? 500 just to show up. I had some things quoted out a few months ago and the prices were insane. It would of been almost 15k to get some guys over here to do what I did in 2 weeks by myself.

 

[Allenw]

Minimum wage in your area is what the local quick stop is paying if you are looking to hire someone.

 

[ClinchValley86]

For $15-20 an hour it seems the only help I can get is likely to nod out mid stride.

Anyone worth having already has plenty going on.

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

"Official" minimum wage is like $10.33 and supposed to go up to $10.56 sometime this winter.

For those wages I don't think you can actually get someone to show up.

Local gas station is hiring and the sign says $14.50 and if you show up for a few weeks I think you start making 16-17 bucks.

 

[Ky hills]

Minimum wage is $7.25 in KY, but nothing I see advertising for help is that low. Fast food restaurants generally are advertising starting pay around $12 if I remember right.
Sure can’t find anybody to do any farm work, or small handyman type jobs for under $15-20, and even then at that pay they ain’t to be found very reliable.
Last year, when we went out of town, we asked around friends about the possibility of their driving age teen to 20 year old children or grandchildren, would want to make some money feeding out chickens and beef steers. Crickets from most, Finally a near 20 yr old that was already working doing farm work with his family agreed to do it.
I’ve know a guy about my age, a little older that can build and do most any kind of house construction or repair work.
Used to could get him to do odd job repair work for $20 an hour. Usually had to pick him up and take him home, then clean up after him as he was a very messy worker. Now he won’t work, drugs and alcohol have taken him over again.
Really don’t want him around in that condition anyways as some of the people around him we e suspected of stealing some stuff from us.
That’s the thing around here. You can’t trust hardly anybody. The guys working in our hay a few years ago, we know stole something from us, and likely are responsible for stealing more stuff.
If you can find somebody willing to work it’s a good chance that you don’t want them on your property.

 

[AmandaQ]

With the discussion on another thread of labor costs i wondered what some states minimum wage was.
Can you get labor for minimum wage in your area.
It shows Georgia and Wyoming at $5.15 an hour and Washington DC at $17.50. Here in Virginia its $12 but going up to $12.41 January 1st.
I can't hire dependable farm labor for any price here anymore.

I’m an accountant at an insurance brokerage and I feel this in my bones. We cannot hire accountants fresh out of school anymore. They have zero work ethic, they pretend to do the job but actually don’t. (And when paying our bills is the job, it get’s dire pretty quickly.) The last one got fired for deep sea fishing working. The one before him got so stoned on his lunch break that it was causing contact highs in our office. I was able to move to the country and rarely go in the office because I’m in my fifties and getting my job done correctly is important to me. Our world seems to be on a tilt-a-whirl.

 

[Brute 23]

I'm an accountant at an insurance brokerage and I feel this in my bones. We cannot hire accountants fresh out of school anymore. They have zero work ethic, they pretend to do the job but actually don't. (And when paying our bills is the job, it get's dire pretty quickly.) The last one got fired for deep sea fishing working. The one before him got so stoned on his lunch break that it was causing contact highs in our office. I was able to move to the country and rarely go in the office because I'm in my fifties and getting my job done correctly is important to me. Our world seems to be on a tilt-a-whirl.

My brother is an asset manager and has the same issues. They are going outside the "accounting world" of to fill positions. The last one didn't make a payment on time, their boss didn't reply to emails about questions, and so on, and basically no one said... hey, this has to get done... maybe I should pick up a phone. The original person just went home and no one up the chain was checking in until it was too late. There were several people "working from home" and the ones there didn't have the sense or drive to puxk up the phone and actually call any one.

When he got wind of it, he went to the actual person where it originated, to get a feel of how this could happen and what needed to change, they gave him attitude like... I sent my email... after that it's not my problem. He was like... to some extent yes, but if you would have picked up the phone to any of them or even me... you would probably have their job right now.

People just don't get it.

My other buddy who is at an engineering firm is having the same issues with college graduates.

Both are offering huge incentives to current employees who find other people to hire.

 

[kenny thomas]

I was raised poor in a community that was mostly small tobacco farms. We worked for anyone asking us without even asking what it paid. Im sure most of the time it was less than minimum wage. Hard labor jobs also. If it was $1 an hour it was money we didn't have.

 

[Dave]

I think the minimum is $15. Not certain on that. But I know that McDonald's has a big sign out front offering $16 to start. One advantage we do have is with our population base a large percentage of the young people are ranch raised and know how to work. And although there is certainly some drug issues it is not to the degree that other areas have.

 

[greybeard]

I don't know the official figure, but I tried to hire a high school kid that needed money to help me make some Youtube videos and we agreed on a price of $20 an hour with a guarantee of $2500 for five fifteen minute videos once they were posted... and he bailed out after two and a half hours with him just telling me how to do things that I wanted to learn before we started.

Sometimes, ya just need fidy bucks..

 

[simme]

My other buddy who is at an engineering firm is having the same issues with college graduates.

It is certainly worse in recent years, but has been going on for a long time. My day job was at a major engineering firm for 44 years. I credit my approach and view of "work" to my having grown up on a farm. That was good preparation.

I hired and trained many new graduates. Here is a conversation I had many times to get their attention. They would quickly finish a short pretty simple assignment and proudly report they were finished. I would review their work and point out some issues and start this conversation. "When you took a test in college and got 90% of the answers correct, what grade did you get?" They would reply that 90% correct is an A which is considered Excellent. We did design of instrumentation and control systems for paper mills. I would point out what happens if we specify and purchase the wrong instrument, size a control valve incorrectly, leave a cable out of the design, etc. Tell them that 90% correct is 10% wrong. That gets an A in college, but 10% errors in the real world is a big failure. Their eyes usually got big. Some got the point very well. Some were short timers. New graduates are generally smart people, but they still need a lot of education for the real world.