Minimum Wage

Jeremy · **Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:28 am**

I get about $8 for doing dish washing here... Then again, Aberdeen doesn't have a huge expense of living. That's something else to consider, areas have different costs for things, and there is even differences in each city.

Jemah · Lieutenant Joined: 04 Mar 2005 Posts: 209

i think minimum wage should be $1,000,000,000 an hour! then i'd be a billionaire.

Republican_Man · **Thu Mar 10, 2005 5:48 pm**

Seven of Nine · **Thu Mar 10, 2005 6:16 pm**

Here in the UK there's three levels of minimum age:
16-17: �3.00 ($5.77)
18-21: �4.10 ($7.8

22+ : �4.85 ($9.32)

For comparison. Take a 20 year old living with an 18 year old and a 1 year old baby in a council house. To cover the rent, council tax, all household expenses, travel expenses, baby cost and whatever, we would need to earn �828.90 ($1,593)

At minimum wage (18-21 rate) that would mean working 202 hours a month which is about 50.5 hours a week. I agree to an increase in the minimum wage in the country

Jemah · Lieutenant Joined: 04 Mar 2005 Posts: 209

i like the 22+ one.

Seven of Nine · **Thu Mar 10, 2005 6:39 pm**

So do I, but I got 3 1/2 years to wait (I'm 1

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Funny thing is, we can take the same conditions as above, except the man was 22 (instead of 20) and he would only have to work 167 hours a moth, being 41.75. So the younger you are the harder you have to work for the same standard of living.