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this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2023
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$7.25 Club of Shame (Federal Minimum)
Alabama
Georgia
Idaho
Indiana
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Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
New Hampshire
North Caroline
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Wisconsin
Wyoming
And before anyone says "no one pays those wages anymore," it's true that I didn't get paid $7.25 an hour when I first moved back to Indiana about 10 years ago.
I was paid $7.75 an hour. From a TV station. To shoot live news and sports, meaning traveling in weather no matter how dangerous for regional basketball games and seeing lots of dead bodies, then going back and editing two news shows every night before heading out again to shoot the next car crash.
And when I was up for a promotion, I was told I didn't have the right attitude. Because my attitude was things like, "it's blizzarding out right now. I really don't think it's safe for me to drive 50 miles down a 2-lane highway at night." rather than, "sir yes sir!"
I left that job as soon as I could. To the other TV station in town. For a $10 an hour job making commercials.
These are jobs in L.A., where I used to live, that would pay you a high five-figure salary if not a six-figure one. And the weather is a lot safer to drive in.
Yep, Indiana sucks when it comes to pay. I'm sure those other states are just as bad.
Attitude and wages have a direct correlation. As an employer, you pay for the attitude you get.
You would think so, but the other people in the same job were gung-ho for it. It was bizarre. And I basically spent my evenings documenting tragedies when it wasn't sports (and I hate sports), so it took a serious psychological toll, which it should have for anyone who wasn't the apparent psychopaths I was working with.
outrageous, I can't believe anyone in television journalism, a fairly high profile position, would be paid only $7.75 an hour. I often wonder how much those people on TV are earning. I always imagine theyre all multimillionaires in amazing houses with amazing cars.
It's a small town, so I didn't expect $90,000 a year or anything, but you'd think they'd pay a little more than they did. But I really needed a job at the time.
You missed Arkansas
Arkansas minimum is $11.00
Thanks I wonder why it was included on the info graphic as one of the states that had the fed minimum.
I didn't see Virginia on your list, but it's definitely not on the map in the article. Are they somewhere in-between?
Virginia is $12.00. The map from the article is just showing recent minimum wage hikes.
Upcoming wage hikes.
For example Massachusetts is also not there: we raised minimum wage in 2023 but do not have another raise coming in 2024