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Originally Posted by Minte
Obamacare will end up simply being another tax on the masses. That 70% nonparticipation won't change. Our plan is to give our employees a 1% x-mas bonus so they can pay the tax. I don't know what the average payrate is for Americans, but I know that in the Midwest a job for over $12 an hour is considered good. Retail jobs pay $10, agricultural under $10 THe average hourly in our company is about $15 and as I said, 70% won't take it.
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Midwest is about same as FL then on pay. Here in New England I'd say average is closer to $17 or so at a factory/warehouse type job. That's assuming they are company employees and not temps of course. I know the son of one of my friends just got a entry level position at a machine shop for $30k a year. One of the big distribution centers is always advertising $40k/year for their warehouse workers and there is a Frito Lay package plant that pays their temps $19/hr and their permant employees start at $20 something/hr.
That was all kind of a shocker to me when I moved up here after knowing how low wages were in FL. TBH it was one of the main reasons I alway had my own business, because there was no way I was going to work for someone else for $10/hr and get no insurance or anything else, which is very common in FL.