WTAF.
There are actually people commenting on this”job offer” positively because “oh but you get free housing.”
For the sake of simplicity, I'm going to arbitrarily decide that the two days where you are also day manager are Saturday and Sunday.
This employer is asking that you work a 16.5-hour night shift on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and then work ROUND THE CLOCK from Friday at 5pm until Monday at 9:30am.
That's 130.5 hours a week, or roughly 548 hours a month, AKA the equivalent of over 3 FULL TIME JOBS… for $1000 per month. And a free motel apartment is supposed to make that okay???
Let's do some math here:
The Santa Fe minimum wage is 14.03/hr.
So this should pay a bare minimum of:
$561.20/wk in regular wages
+ $1904.58/wk in overtime pay
= $2,465.78/wk, or $10,356.28/mo
That means they are charging you at least $9,356.28 for rent/utilities.
People keep commenting about how it's a “great opportunity for someone with no other housing option”. In Santa Fe you'd pay maybe $2600 for a modest 2-bedroom and utilities, and someone desperate enough to consider taking this “job” would possibly only want to rent a 1-bedroom anyway,
If they got an actual paycheck and lived off the premises, they should have at least $8k pre-tax leftover every month after housing expenses–for food, healthcare, transportation, savings, education, and everything else that they wouldn't have time to do anyway because they already don't even have enough time to sleep (let alone eat).
Also, isn't employer-provided housing taxable income? So are you not in fact, getting paid not $1000/mo minus the taxes owed on that amount, but $1000/mo minus the taxes owed on over $8000/mo? Someone correct me if I'm wrong here.
Wouldn't you basically be working for free then? 450 hours a month? How is this even legal, and how can anyone defend it?????? Isn't it labor trafficking? It's basically slavery with plausible deniability. So how should this be addressed? He stated in subsequent comments that he's had employees on this compensation structure for years.
