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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Probably working 2 jobs without OT

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Chinese only get one salary and still expected to work that much

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wouldn't consider US min wage with US prices a whole salary.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

In 2021, 1.4% of workers in the United States were paid hourly rates at or below the official minimum wage. The percentage of hourly paid workers earning the prevailing federal minimum wage or less declined from 1.9% in 2019 to 1.5% in 2020, which remains well below the percentage of 13.4 recorded in 1979. Around 44.3 percent of wage and salary workers paid hourly rates at or below the federal minimum wage were aged between 16 to 24 years.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2020/home.htm

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