$15 an hour at 40 hours a week is approximately $2000, adjusting for state and local taxes. It's more than enough for a single person to live ALONE (no roommates) on a budget in rented lodgings and have money saved over after their usual monthly expenses (food, car insurance, gas, cellphone bill, groceries). I never said anything about kids or a wife or an elderly/sick dependent. That being said, subsidies do exist for those extra burdens if you file the right paperwork and demonstrate you need additional help beyond what you make. In fact, that's what drove the pay hike in the first place: There was a law passed that the company would be penalized for every dollar in food stamps or other assistance their minimum-wage employees received on top of their salaries. It's certainly not a bad wage for a young person in their first job. Walmart recently raised its waged to around $12 an hour after years of protests and complaints by employees.
I’d have to work 100 hours a week under the table to make my bills.yes much better than minimum wage by far but no one with a house and family could live with that unless in a very depressed area.
That sucks. You may have to go back to the drawing board one day and reconfigure that setup when you can afford to. I sympathize, though, no judgments here.
I live in a rural area and $15 is more than most people make unless they are professionals.
It's a living wage in many midwestern and southern states. I mean, if someone wants more, they can try to get promoted after enough years of service or go back to school, or learn a trade. Nobody's forcing anyone to work at Amazon, right?
So the world's richest man gave his employees a raise, while at the same time alerting the media to his Noble act..so brave
It's not about bravery. It's about him being the richest man in the world and feeling the pressure from a multitude of sources: The many attempts at unionizing in his workforce that the company crushed in the past; protests by existing employees, as well as undercover reports of working conditions that included people urinating in bottles or defecating in garbage cans to avoid missing their pick targets or asking for bathroom breaks, or being dehydrated from walking around a hot warehouse all day; and reports by none other than Tucker Carlson (among others) criticizing the company for how it treats his employees on his show:
Oh...I thought only left wing media outlets focused on minimum wage and worker conditions?
No it makes him a narcissist
He was already a narcissist and will continue to be. It comes with having $150 billion as your net worth and the largest virtual retail company in the world. Has nothing to do with this pay raise. That's just good business.
USA doesn't need a useless minimum wage................
USA needs a Salary Cap
The Soviet Union had that, too. It closed down. Idiot.
I am an Assistant Store Manager at Auto Zone and I make between $13-14 an hour. At times, its a slight struggle but I make do.
I don't believe anything you write here but for those who do occupy that position at Auto Zone, good on them. One day they might get their own store.
think again
No. You think again.
Goodrum is offline because he is applying for Amazon warehouse jobs! 
Haha. He's too fat for most of their hourly jobs.
