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Who else makes $15 / hr?

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WinterStick
Posts: 234 - Karma: 100
I'm college educated person and in a job in which I use my degree. And I'm only getting paid $15 an hour. Janitors at McDonalds start at 10, so I want to know what kinds of shitty jobs are equivalent so I can gage how hard I work vs. how hard I should be working for such shitty pay.
Dec 14 2011 12:22PM
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saskskier
Posts: 4774 - Karma: 10,005
Where are you working/what is your degree in?
Dec 14 2011 12:24PM
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ECB
Posts: 6991 - Karma: 622
yea if you say psychology and you are making 15 an hour that implies you have a job so congrats
Dec 14 2011 12:25PM
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WinterStick
Posts: 234 - Karma: 100
It's in electrical engineering
Dec 14 2011 12:28PM
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I_Am_Mod
Posts: 13214 - Karma: 3,753
i went promo-biking yesterday, basically you drive around in a go-cart with a billboard on the back, i made 15euro/hour for driving from 13h-19h, so 6 hours and i was allowed to stop and have a drink in the city center whenever i liked, as long as i made sure the bike was in plain sight ...

i really like it + it's a good workout for my legs :D
Dec 14 2011 12:29PM
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iSmokeweed
Posts: 4793 - Karma: 1,370
i buss tables and i host at a restaurant. for hosting i get paid $10/h, but bussing i make $5/h + tips which can range from 40-100 dollars. get a bussing job at a nice restaurant. you could easily make 120 in a night.
Dec 14 2011 12:31PM
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Fritz_Wetherbee
Posts: 302 - Karma: 30
Thats rough dude. Definitely lower than average. But if you are just out of college, you need to prove your worth. I'd ask for a raise after you complete your first large project or after 6 months of employment.
Dec 14 2011 12:34PM
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Mr.Gaga
Posts: 2021 - Karma: 542

I hope you're kidding wtf you could easily get a better job.

Dec 14 2011 12:36PM
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Mister.F
Posts: 1206 - Karma: 169
My mom has a mater's degree in social work and only makes about that much. So college degrees don't always correlate with high pay
Dec 14 2011 12:36PM
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act.resist
Posts: 8875 - Karma: 513
Sounds nice... I'm a hostess and I make 3.25 an hour plus three percent of the tips and I only bring around 10-20 dollars a night most of the time unless it's really busy
Dec 14 2011 12:38PM
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Banane.
Posts: 3102 - Karma: 414
$13/h plus tips ( $20 ) per day. I work in a grocery store btw.
Dec 14 2011 12:38PM
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wiener
Posts: 2247 - Karma: 63
That is so fucked up. Where do you live? and what school did you go to? This is the compensation report from the governing engineering association in BC.

http://www.apeg.bc.ca/services/employmentcentre/documents/compsurvey2010.pdf

$15/h sucks and after receiving an engineering degree from an accredited school is a slap in the face.

Dec 14 2011 12:39PM
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THAT-GUY
Posts: 141 - Karma: 11
I'm an accountant making $12, granted I'm the new guy and doing plenty of JE's and other data entry bitch work

Real world sucks
Dec 14 2011 12:40PM
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PhaedeD
Posts: 11499 - Karma: 342
you majored in electrical engineering and you only make 15 an hour!?! thats nuts a journeyman electrician makes like 40 an hour and they just go do electrical shit in peoples houses. they dont engineer shit.
Dec 14 2011 12:40PM
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PhaedeD
Posts: 11499 - Karma: 342
well good thing for me im computer science/finance.
Dec 14 2011 12:48PM
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howlongcanausern
Posts: 4982 - Karma: 1,737
OP did you have to do an internship or anything like that?

and that sucks about your wage, grit and bear it, shit will get better
Dec 14 2011 12:49PM
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Cufe.
Posts: 1950 - Karma: 262
I make 15 and hour...

As a construction labourer (summer job while living at home) 1-3k pay checks make student life a lot better, but I imagine living your actual life would kind of suck with that level of pay.
Dec 14 2011 12:50PM
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TheBigApple
Posts: 1169 - Karma: 488
3.25 an HOUR?!?! WHAT THE FUCK!!!! That should be illegal. I'd rather be homeless then sell my soul for a loaf of bread.
Dec 14 2011 12:51PM
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Fritz_Wetherbee
Posts: 302 - Karma: 30
Are you kidding me?

I know 3 EE majors who are all in their senior year at RPI. All make over $40 an hour at summer internships. 2 of them work on Wall Street.

One of the girls on Wall Street was recently offered a job out of college with a six digit salary.
Dec 14 2011 12:54PM
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howlongcanausern
Posts: 4982 - Karma: 1,737
yeah they figure 3.25+tips = minimum wage which is like 5 something

WA state has highest minimum wage + no state income tax....feels good man
Dec 14 2011 12:59PM
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PhaedeD
Posts: 11499 - Karma: 342
she gets tips... i have friends that are waiters that make like 1.50 an hour... but they get tips.
Dec 14 2011 12:59PM
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act.resist
Posts: 8875 - Karma: 513
plus tips makes it minimum wage...most of the time but i live in traverse city michigan...not getting any better jobs any time soon
Dec 14 2011 12:59PM
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.Ian.
Posts: 1568 - Karma: 72
Listen to this: I clean post offices (shitty right?) at first it sounded like awesome pay... I get paid per each post office that I clean. I usually clean one or two a day. My highest paying post office I get $30 for, and it usually takes about an hour to an hour and a half to clean. Not bad so far right? Well this post office, a long with others, is over an hour drive from my house so that's an hour there and an hour back, so in total about 3 1/2 hours to clean this one post office. PLUS there's more! I did it out and it costs me over $15 in gas to drive there, that is not compensated for. I'm still in highschool so I'm just glad I have a job, but I'll do the math for you... 30-15/3.5= a whopping: $4.28 an hour... woohoo...
Dec 14 2011 1:00PM
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Cufe.
Posts: 1950 - Karma: 262
who is the idiot that decided $5 an hour is minimum? In BC its 8.50 or 9 now.
Dec 14 2011 1:00PM
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KellyK
Posts: 1782 - Karma: 715
sucks for you then. my brother is an electrical engineer. he got a job starting at $55k a year salary straight out of college. kids making bank
Dec 14 2011 1:02PM
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howlongcanausern
Posts: 4982 - Karma: 1,737
the federal gubment...it's actually 7.25

and yeah in washington it's 8.67 (and can't be any lower...even waiters make at least this + tips)
Dec 14 2011 1:02PM
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TheClap.
Posts: 21672 - Karma: 4,163
I make $10/hr now. But they are fully paying for my masters and my phD if I want it. At times it sucks only making $10/hr but then again they are paying 80k+ for my Masters so ill take it.

Its hard these days to find a good paying job.
Dec 14 2011 1:05PM
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Fritz_Wetherbee
Posts: 302 - Karma: 30
Ahh, sorry bout that.

But yeah, I mean if you are really upset about your wages OP, and it doesn't seem like you have much room for advancement. I'd take a little journey down south and look around. CE and EE are two of the biggest needs for most new tech startups.
Dec 14 2011 1:05PM
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Aidan-G
Posts: 9415 - Karma: 10,861
My job over the summer I made 20.75 an hour but last year I made 46.50 an hour
Dec 14 2011 1:10PM
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ItsAlwaysSunny
Posts: 265 - Karma: 85
truck drivers now make $25+ per hour since its in such high demand
Dec 14 2011 1:15PM
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iSmokeweed
Posts: 4793 - Karma: 1,370
tips bro. most waiters make betwee 2.50 .270 an hour.
Dec 14 2011 1:16PM
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XtRemE11
Posts: 5680 - Karma: 246
its funny how much you can make doing things people never think of. ive got a friend making 25 an hour as a rafting guide. another, a highschool drop out, if he "works" full time, can make like 3 grand in a week welding and selling jeep bumpers, sliders, doors and tire carriers, hes made jigs and pumps them out super fast when he wants to work.
another friend who details cars, said his boss, makes over twice as much as he did as an engineer. just bought all the tools and materials to get started in auto detailing, and now he goes around cleaning awesome cars for a living making pretty damn good amount of money.

college is necessary for some people for sure, but a lot of people with the right skills and mind can make as much or more.
Dec 14 2011 1:24PM
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.RYAN66
Posts: 5381 - Karma: 237
This my mom has an MBA in accounting an went from making around 100k a year to pretty much 15 an hour I think.
Dec 14 2011 1:36PM
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Guard_Puma
Posts: 344 - Karma: 82
I made $15/hr waving a flag in a parking lot this summer for the Twins. And now $12/hr in the group home I work at playing video games and surfing the web. You got yourself a shitty job, sir.
Dec 14 2011 1:42PM
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TheClap.
Posts: 21672 - Karma: 4,163
I'm an assistant Psychologist for home and family counseling.
Most internships I looked at payed for a % of grad school, but this one payed for all of it since it is in the projects and I have to work there for 5 years (including grad school). So I do my two years making $10/payed grad school. Then I work 3 years for a salary. I love it.
Dec 14 2011 1:45PM
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Brenone
Posts: 4944 - Karma: 296
You have your accounting degree and you make $12 an hour?? or are you interning or something?
Dec 14 2011 1:45PM
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MFM
Posts: 842 - Karma: 77
Thank's for reinforcing my idea that a bachelor's degree is fucking pointless. I make more than you and am a high school dropout who didn't waste another four years doing stupid shit for a dumb degree. Maybe put another 4 years in and become successful, come on get your life together!
Dec 14 2011 1:46PM
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k-fred
Posts: 5363 - Karma: 1,598
same same thing here! every year 2 years ago i was making 13,last year 14 and this year 15... next year im probably going to make 16/hour
Dec 14 2011 1:50PM
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H8CH
Posts: 2709 - Karma: 218
Get a job in the oil industry as a graduate engineer... . EE's are in desperate need.

?! no brainer... drop me a line if you want more info - but you're wasting your degree right now.

You have to be prepared to move to where the good jobs are though...no matter where that is. if you're not - then you should be happy on your 15/hr. But you could be making nearly 8 times that.

Dec 14 2011 2:02PM
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daskis
Posts: 1828 - Karma: 356
If you have your degree in engineering from a decently good school and you are making less than $75,000 something is seriously wrong... Find a new job or get your master's.
Dec 14 2011 2:06PM
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Lord.Quasimoto
Posts: 958 - Karma: 33
i hope this is a trolling or a joke. i LOL at people bashing general education - it only proves how dumb they are.

knowledge is power children, be cool - stay in school.
Dec 14 2011 2:07PM
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JZ
Posts: 577 - Karma: 15
you could go to grad school.

assuming about 60hrs a week we pull somewhere near a whopping $5 an hour after tax

*also the whole part of a free education so I'll shut up now
Dec 14 2011 2:16PM
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Barefootin_Fiend
Posts: 7618 - Karma: 4,727
I'm also an accountant, but I make more than double this with a Masters.
Dec 14 2011 2:21PM
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chicken
Posts: 6843 - Karma: 2,121
I'm going to be working at my job that pays like 12 an hour I think. Over the summer though I made a lot more than that.
Dec 14 2011 2:33PM
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remove
Posts: 2566 - Karma: 1,026
if it's an internship or anything that you're getting experience credit with then that pay is completely fine. It's not until after you get that degree that it matters. You get taken advantage of for working a shit load but you gotta play the game.
Dec 14 2011 2:38PM
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KravtZ
Posts: 6637 - Karma: 2,629
as a part time fishmonger i make 15 an hour off the books niggaaaa.
Dec 14 2011 2:39PM
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Anathema
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i made 18 an hour over the summer and into fall doing jack squat for the government, working from home with my best friend. fuck i wish i could do that shit forever.
Dec 14 2011 2:43PM
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Fritz_Wetherbee
Posts: 302 - Karma: 30
Elaborate? haha
Dec 14 2011 2:46PM
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tBatt
Posts: 9632 - Karma: 580
You don't know what you're talking about.

$15/hr is pretty beat though. I'll be making $15.50 this summer for unskilled labor. As someone else said, do well on your first project, prove yourself, and ask for a raise.

If not, start looking for new jobs.
Hell, you might want to start looking anyways. Find competitive wages and use it for leverage.
Dec 14 2011 2:59PM
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penguiin
Posts: 1444 - Karma: 561
I'm a soccer ref and i make anywhere from $20-$40 an hour. good money for high school kid
Dec 14 2011 4:29PM
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THAT-GUY
Posts: 141 - Karma: 11
Yeah I'm doing my 6 month paid internship, still though I figured it would pay more.
Dec 14 2011 4:33PM
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