I don't know what the minimum wage is in the U.S., but it's $8.20 in the province where I live - I think that's higher than the U.S. federal minimum wage by almost $3, but it's still too low! $10.00 an hour sounds fair to me! People need motivation to work! The way the welfare system is set up here, people make more sitting on their butts than they would working for minimum wage! No need for child care, transportation exp., etc.

At 7.15 per hour, assuming a 40 hour week and a 52-week year (I know, most of us get paid vacation but I'm using these figures for simple math), a person will make $14,872 yrly. Can you live on that? I can (barely), but a lot of it depends on the cost of living where you are. How much is rent, groceries, utilties, etc? Then you need to decide on what you want to drive (an expensive SUV or a cheap beater), how much you want to spend on 'luxuries' (entertainment, booze, eating out, etc), and so on. And of course, I'm only...

At 7.15 per hour, assuming a 40 hour week and a 52-week year (I know, most of us get paid vacation but I'm using these figures for simple math), a person will make $14,872 yrly. Can you live on that? I can (barely), but a lot of it depends on the cost of living where you are. How much is rent, groceries, utilties, etc? Then you need to decide on what you want to drive (an expensive SUV or a cheap beater), how much you want to spend on 'luxuries' (entertainment, booze, eating out, etc), and so on. And of course, I'm only one person. Can you support a family on $15K per year? I sincerely doubt it.

Frankly, I'd like to see minimum wage at $6.10 per hour. That's plenty of money for teenagers on their first job. On the hand, excluding teens, I'd like to see employers willing to pay employees a fair, living wage (would $9.00 or 10.00 be out of line?) without the government mandating the issue.

Minimum wage earners are a small percentage of the population. Regardless, increasing their wages are not going to make a huge difference in the overall economy.

With gas at $4.25 and car insurance and rent skyrocketing Minimum Wage should be about $20.00 per hour. Of course none of us small business owners could afford that amount because of..... $4.25 gas and skyrocketing insurance... yadda yadda yadda - the circle continues.

Raising minimum wage is a guaranteed way to raise the price of everything else to compensate! It is a temporary fix that just takes you back to the same problem, but with a higher inflation rate. On the other hand some of the jobs that make minimum wage are just ridiculous! And the trick to making sure that people that live off the government get less money than minimum wage is simple. Set the welfare payments to less than what you could make on minimum wage. Someone on their butt should never make more than a hard work...

Raising minimum wage is a guaranteed way to raise the price of everything else to compensate! It is a temporary fix that just takes you back to the same problem, but with a higher inflation rate. On the other hand some of the jobs that make minimum wage are just ridiculous! And the trick to making sure that people that live off the government get less money than minimum wage is simple. Set the welfare payments to less than what you could make on minimum wage. Someone on their butt should never make more than a hard worker! EVER! I know a lady who lived off the government and had enough to buy a 72" television!!! I wanted to strangle her and the government officials who enabled it.

For that to happen you will have to remove warmongers like George bush from the seat and make sure peace loving president is put in his place so that US can fill in extra 21500$ in each household which has costed so far in the name of war on terrorism.

Read this article to support my point of view.
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For that to happen you will have to remove warmongers like George bush from the seat and make sure peace loving president is put in his place so that US can fill in extra 21500$ in each household which has costed so far in the name of war on terrorism.

Read this article to support my point of view.
http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/2...

The minimum wage should be the same everywhere: $0. Labor is a commodity; governments make messes when they decree commodities' prices. Washington, which has its hands full delivering the mail and defending the shores, should let the market do well what Washington does poorly. But that is a good idea whose time will never come again.

i think in america 1500$ per month is sufficient for basic needs. but if we want to live costly life , minimum 5000$ is needed for luxurious things like buying car,owning a house ,for spending on hotel or for parties etc..



The minimum wage varies by state. but in california in the bay area its 7....

i think in america 1500$ per month is sufficient for basic needs. but if we want to live costly life , minimum 5000$ is needed for luxurious things like buying car,owning a house ,for spending on hotel or for parties etc..



The minimum wage varies by state. but in california in the bay area its 7.50 an hr. The current Federal minimum wage is $5.15/hour. However, if you follow the link to the Dept. of Labor , http://www.dol.gov/esa/minwage... , you can find the states that have variances.

Incidentally, not to be too nitpicky, but there's a difference between salary and wage. Also, the minimum wage is an equal opportunity employer (meaning it's the same for people of all genders.)



in olden days in 1917,the salary 250$ are sufficient for their lifes.but now in this modren days , we need more and more salary as our thirst can't be fulffiled by the salary coming now.we need and wanted to get more and more salary than others.so we feel that we need more salary than others as there is no end to our thirst.


the wages are diffrent for different fields people. i feel for software people and for doctors ,they can earning more.

so the minimum wage or salary differs from people to people and field to field. but the basic salary should not be minimum 1500$.