So What about the Minimum Wage?

Most places in my area pay above already.

The issue is that many people are looking for career pay for a starter job.

Good evening BILL CHERRY,

We see above minium wages being paid in Austin. "Help Wanted" signs are everywhere but many don't want the lower paying jobs even though that is all they are qualified for. Sometimes you have to take what is available and work your way up.

There needs to be a Living Wage, rather than a minimum wage.

Thank you so much for sharing this.  This is exactly the type of information that buyers and sellers need to make informed decisions.  Very professional!

Here is the sad reality about raising minimum wage.  The instant the lowest rung of workers achieve it, the next rung on the feeding chain, begin asking for higher wages too.  The reason is the kid working at McDonalds, who is slinging those hamburgers has his minimum wage increase passed on to the customer who buys them.  That customer then demands a higher wage because his cost of living just went up.  And, on it goes upward among the next rungs of workers.  Once you get into other industries, those wage increases can put American workers at a disadvantage against global workers who will work for less.  I wish we had a perfect answer to all this, but I don't, other than education.  Most minimum wage jobs were never really meant to be living wage jobs.  They were positions held by those going to college, or were on their way to better opportunities.  To me, achieving higher education is key.