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[glass_of_merlot]

Originally Posted by annerk

In many parts of TN housing is very inexpensive--rents for a nice 1BR apt are $400 a month. If you can't survive on $9/hour with rent like that, something's really wrong...

A $400 dollar apartment in Memphis you will live in the ghetto.
Macy's give me 35 hours a week so after taxes I take home about 1100 a month. Then I have other bills. Not just rent. I am married so we are doing ok money wise but if I were single I would be in trouble.

[annerk]

Originally Posted by glass_of_merlot

A $400 dollar apartment in Memphis you will live in the ghetto.
Macy's give me 35 hours a week so after taxes I take home about 1100 a month. Then I have other bills. Not just rent. I am married so we are doing ok money wise but if I were single I would be in trouble.

Maybe in Memphis, but I know some parts of TN are very inexpensive for housing.

[gea12345]

Originally Posted by glass_of_merlot

I have worked for Macys for 8 years in Seattle, WA and I hate it. Get this. In 2001 I made 7.5 an hour as a new hire. 8 years later I am at 13.13 an hour.
My husband gets a good job offer cross country so off we go. I left Macys for a short period. I was hoping to find some other job other then retail. Well, I coud not find anything. The job market here sucks so I went back to Macys here in Memphis. This time I get offered $9.00 an hour! Some of us is just going backwards.

This is not unusual. When I worked at the Red Cross as lab assistant, they paid 10 dollars per hour. The woman I worked with started there 10 years before, started at 3.00 per hour and was making 10.00 dollars per hour. Obviously, she didn't think this was fair, but it was her reality.

Fast forward another 15 years and the employees are now making 12 dollars per hour. And she is making 12 dollars per hour for a total of 25 years of service. Again it is her reality.

Also, the people who had been working there and were trained on the job, who were making 15 to 22 dollars per hour as lab techs, were forced!! to go to school and pay 5 thousand at their local community college to get a degree for a field that they already had 10 years on the job experience to meet the new rules. And then 20 to 50 thousand more to get a bachelors at Thomas Jeff. University.

Now, what do i think about all of this? hmmm don't know?

But I have been told that they only way to demand higher salaries from people hired as Managers is to keep the formal education requirments high and discount the on the job education as not adequate. The more education, the more they can demand higher salaries is the method of analysis, that is currently used!

just a thought!

[PurpleLove08]

I can't believe they were paying you so little in Seattle.
I can understand a wage like that here in AR...

[gea12345]

If that surprises you, then try working in Oregon!! ;-)

I think that California and Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia, DE, D.C., have decent salaries, but it all depends on your job. There are plenty of people making 8 to 12 dollars per hour in Phila, which is near impossible to live on, with our rent prices!!