I'm in NYC where the minimum wage is 15. I make minimum wage. I've been recommended jobs to look into. And I am looking at them from fast food to office administration. The food and gym pay 15. I graduated college years ago. I went to check the careers page. They pay their janitors 15 dollars an hour.
I'm seeing 19 dollars an hour for administration jobs. I have worked at the front desk of a hotel, minimum wage. The housekeepers made minimum wage. The old-fashioned 40,000 a few years ago, before the housing crisis is now worth 59,000 dollars today. That is 28 dollars an hour if wages were kept up with inflation. The administration jobs that would have been 40,000 way back even before the housing crisis should be exponentially higher now. I am happy my friends are making money and able to job-hop to a higher salary. I'm pissed off when they and my relatives tell me to not work for minimum wage and keep spouting jobs that PAY MINIMUM WAGE. What makes it worse is the jobs they've gotten that paid a little over minimum wage I APPLIED TOO. They got hired by a connection.