ummm... I don't make $22.23/hour. I made more when I worked at the other agency in a higher position, but I don't make it now.
I don't know many, if any, of my friends in St. Louis making $22.23 per hour. $19.23/hour is equivalent to $40,000 a year. $22.23 is about $46-47,000 a year.
The US average salary is $35-40,000 per year.
Plus, you gotta remember that a majority of jobs are fast food, department store type jobs, and they are around $8-10/hour. If they were paid more money, we wouldn't be able to afford clothes or fast food.
The fast food companies and clothing companies make PLENTY of money to pay a higher minimum wage. Don't let their whines and cries fool you.
The real bitch about the situation here is that it is getting EXPENSIVE to live in Boise. Much more than St. Louis. If I lived and worked in St. Louis, making what I make here, I could BUY a house! I can barely afford to rent one here (hence the roommate...).
Salary must be comparable to the cost of living per any given city. Boise grew too big for what it can handle. Housing costs rise - but the government forgets about the little people who don't work the high-paying jobs...... wages have remained static for too long. This city's growth, and the inevitable national inflation-rate demands higher wages!
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I don't know many, if any, of my friends in St. Louis making $22.23 per hour. $19.23/hour is equivalent to $40,000 a year. $22.23 is about $46-47,000 a year.
The US average salary is $35-40,000 per year.
Plus, you gotta remember that a majority of jobs are fast food, department store type jobs, and they are around $8-10/hour. If they were paid more money, we wouldn't be able to afford clothes or fast food.
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The real bitch about the situation here is that it is getting EXPENSIVE to live in Boise. Much more than St. Louis. If I lived and worked in St. Louis, making what I make here, I could BUY a house! I can barely afford to rent one here (hence the roommate...).
Salary must be comparable to the cost of living per any given city. Boise grew too big for what it can handle. Housing costs rise - but the government forgets about the little people who don't work the high-paying jobs...... wages have remained static for too long. This city's growth, and the inevitable national inflation-rate demands higher wages!
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