The U.S. has a $7.25 minimum wage. Australia’s is $16.88?!!

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...-25-minimum-wage-australias-is-16-88/?print=1

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For junior employees, the minimum rates are:
Under 16 years of age $5.87
At 16 years of age $7.55
At 17 years of age $9.22
At 18 years of age $10.90
At 19 years of age $13.17
At 20 years of age $15.59


Not the same thing.
Apples and oranges.
 
tinfoil said:
For junior employees, the minimum rates are:
Under 16 years of age $5.87
At 16 years of age $7.55
At 17 years of age $9.22
At 18 years of age $10.90
At 19 years of age $13.17
At 20 years of age $15.59


Not the same thing.
Apples and oranges.
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Yeh , you are right. In the US you would still get $7.25 irrespective of how old you are.
 
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tinfoil said:
For junior employees, the minimum rates are:
Under 16 years of age $5.87
At 16 years of age $7.55
At 17 years of age $9.22
At 18 years of age $10.90
At 19 years of age $13.17
At 20 years of age $15.59


Not the same thing.
Apples and oranges.
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there's an interesting proposal.....has anyone suggested doing that here?.....
 
Aoxomoxoa said:
Yeh , you are right. In the US you would still get $7.25 irrespective of how old you are.
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What does age have to do with the value of your work ?.....Are hamburgers any better if they are flipped by a 16 year old compared to a 21 year old ?
Is this Aussie logic ?
 
evince said:
anyone who works should get paid enough to live IF they work 40 hours.


that is just sanity
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Anyone? Anyone who has a job? Define live? What type of lifestyle? Barely enough to get by? Middle class lifestyle? Give me some specifics.

I know that this statement in and of itself probably sounds great inside your head and is probably a show stopper at your liberal get togethers and is worth an applause line. But, in Realville where I live, details matter.

What about 39 hours? 38 hours? 32 hours?

What is magical about 40 hours?

Please expound on what I am sure you think is an excellent point
 
I Love America said:
Anyone? Anyone who has a job? Define live? What type of lifestyle? Barely enough to get by? Middle class lifestyle? Give me some specifics.

I know that this statement in and of itself probably sounds great inside your head and is probably a show stopper at your liberal get togethers and is worth an applause line. But, in Realville where I live, details matter.

What about 39 hours? 38 hours? 32 hours?

What is magical about 40 hours?

Please expound on what I am sure you think is an excellent point
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Damn lost Desh again
 
NOVA said:
Thats insanity....the value of labor is NOT measured by the cost of living. Or age.
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Why not? corporation get breaks based on the cost of living!

http://scienceblogs.com/thepumphand...-tie-living-wages-to-big-business-tax-breaks/

Workers in Travis County, Texas, are celebrating what advocates are calling a landmark victory, after local leaders voted to ensure that economic incentive deals benefit both big business and workers.

In late November, Travis County commissioners approved a new living wage requirement for companies wanting to move into the county and take advantage of the generous tax breaks the region offers to lure new business. The requirement creates a new wage floor of $11 an hour for all employees, including construction workers. On the same day as the county vote, a committee of the Austin City Council (Austin is located in Travis County) recommended a similar policy change that would require an $11 per hour wage floor, certain safety standards and hiring a percentage of workers from local technical schools. The full City Council is expected to take up the matter in January.

The moves are big steps forward in making sure construction workers also reap the benefits of working in one of the country’s fastest growing regions. Between 1990 and 2007, the Austin-area construction industry grew by 219 percent. However worker wages lagged behind, with Texas construction workers earning $2 to $3 less per hour than workers in other states, according to a 2009 study from Austin’s Workers Defense Project and the University of Texas. The study also found that 45 percent of construction workers in Austin live below the poverty line and about half of workers said they don’t make enough to adequately support their families. The prevailing wage for Austin construction workers — people who work in one of the most dangerous industries and in a state with the worst construction worker fatality record — is only about $7.50 an hour, or just 25 cents more than the federal minimum wage.

“There’s so much push back on improving construction working conditions, whether it’s people being afraid it will disrupt business or think Austin won’t be competitive,” said Greg Casar, business liaison at the Workers Defense Project, which led a coalition in pushing for the new living wage policy. “But when you hear stories about kids who have to drop out of high school to help their families or of six or seven construction workers living in the same apartment…then we can really see who’s benefiting from economic development deals and oftentimes, it’s not working people.”
 
Liberty said:
I had a friend that went to work at a country club in Australia earlier this year, but quickly came home when he found out that the cost of living was to extream.

A six pack of beer was around $20.00.
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So maybe we should just give all of the illegal immigrants one way tickets to Australia?

Problem solved
 
-The U.S. has a $7.25 minimum wage. Australia’s is $16.88?!! -

Clearly inflation is not progressing as fast as progressives planned it.
 
Liberty said:
I had a friend that went to work at a country club in Australia earlier this year, but quickly came home when he found out that the cost of living was to extream.

A six pack of beer was around $20.00.
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One of my best friends lives in Sydney and he's always telling me about the outrageous cost of everything.

Before he bought his house he paid $475.00 a WEEK for a smallish two bedroom apt.

And buying herb is insane...$25-30.00 a GRAM.

Everyone makes a shitload more per hour due to the high cost of living.
 
ZappasGuitar said:
One of my best friends lives in Sydney and he's always telling me about the outrageous cost of everything.

Before he bought his house he paid $475.00 a WEEK for a smallish two bedroom apt.

And buying herb is insane...$25-30.00 a GRAM.

Everyone makes a shitload more per hour due to the high cost of living.
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Orrrrrrrrrr

The artificially high salaries causes everything to cost more. Ever think of that?
 
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