• snooggums@midwest.social
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    3 months ago

    Good for Oregon. Until a living wage is implemented nationwide it is a problem that needs to be addressed.

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      3 months ago

      You call that a living wage? In Washington the minimum is $16.28 statewide, including tipped labor, and it’s $19.97 in Seattle.

      What’s wild to me is that the cost of a meal is the same as in places like Pennsylvania where a waiter can be paid as little as $2.83/hr.

      Almost like the cost is set by the market, and the owners will cut wages as low as they’re allowed to simply to take more for themselves.

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        3 months ago

        You call that a living wage?

        No. Good for them having servers paid more than the $2 and change national minimum wage.

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          3 months ago

          Ignoring the fact there’s no sales tax on many of the largest expenses (food, rent, healthcare), $14.70 + 10.4% (the highest sales tax in WA) is still lower than the lowest minimum wage in Washington, and in rural Oregon counties the minimum is only $13.70.