TIL Minimum wage has only increased by $7.00 in 85 years in the USA. - eviltoast

Upon inception it was set at $0.25. It is now $7.25.

  • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    State minimums can be different for certain jobs, and certain jobs are exempt from minimum wage and have a lower set wage. Tipped workers are the ones everyone knows about, but farm workers and others are also exempt.

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      1 year ago

      That in no way contradicts anything I said.

      The person I was replying to never said they were exempt from minimum wage… They said what they misremembered the minimum wage to have been.