Australia - $15.51 or $589.30 per week.
And we have about a 5% unemployment rate at present.
Dollar is around parity at present and cost of living about equivalent, I
think.
Except for camera stuff which is overpriced.
The full scale -
For junior employees, the minimum rates are:
Under 16 years of age $5.71
At 16 years of age $7.34
At 17 years of age $8.96
At 18 years of age $10.59
At 19 years of age $12.80
At 20 years of age $15.15.
For apprentices, the rates are:
Year 1 of apprenticeship $9.93
Year 2 of apprenticeship $11.74
Year 3 of apprenticeship $14.45
Year 4 of apprenticeship $17.16.
The rate is argued out between Unions, Business and Government at an
independent Arbitration Commission.
Does this mean that we're socialists or something? :-)
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 19/10/2011, at 2:25 PM, Chris Crawford wrote:
> A lot of states have no minimum wage, or one that is lower than the Federal
> $7.25 wage. In those cases, the Federal minimum is enforced. The sad thing
> is, $13 an hour is an almost incredible, impossible to get wage for most of
> the college educated young people in our country today. I know that anytime
> a business here offers wages that high, they get thousands of applications
> almost overnight! No one pays that much anymore, at least not for jobs young
> grads are hired for.
>
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> On 10/18/11 11:19 PM, "Mike Lazzari" <watershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> The US minimum wage....
>> ...is actually set for practical purposes by most individual states.
>> Here in Washington it is currently set to increase to $9.04/hr Jan 1.
>> Still not a living wage. The minimum wage is another form of corporate
>> welfare. Walmart was notoriously known for giving employees information
>> on how to collect food stamps. With GE touting bringing home the jobs
>> from overseas and paying employees $13/hr it's no wonder US can
>> complete with 3rd world countries. We are one.
>>
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._minimum_wages>
>>
>> Mike
>
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