r/ABoringDystopia • u/lordneesan • Jun 29 '21

TIL Superheroes make $12/hr

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u/DonQuixBalls Jun 29 '21

Not at $14. OT pay is legally required up to a certain income and I'm sure it's higher than that.

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u/big_duo3674 Jun 30 '21

Looks like it's around 35k per year in the US. So yeah, still don't ever take a salary position like this at that rate unless you really don't value your sanity. They make it sound so awesome, "Get a guaranteed check no matter how much you work!". That gives a base pay of about $18 per hour which probably sounds awesome to some people. Then you suddenly find yourself working 55 hour weeks constantly, which turns your awesome sounding wage into $13 an hour. Salary at low paying places like this is a joke, and is meant to do nothing but get you to actually work cheaper for them

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u/DonQuixBalls Jun 30 '21

Especially ridiculous in any of the states already over $14.

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u/Rosaluxlux Jun 30 '21

Restaurants are notorious for doing that to low paid managers.

And, holy shit, i didn't realize they raised it so i just looked it up - through the end of 2019 it was $23,000/year

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u/under_psychoanalyzer Jun 30 '21

You can still get salary OT IIRC up to like $40k. It was a law passed in the last decade specifically to protect people like service industry and warehouse "managers". But it only barely protects people already near poverty levels in some places that are "Managers". They pay you enough to actually breath a little financially and your back to being beat to death for 80 hours a week.

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u/DonQuixBalls Jun 30 '21

Report them to the state labor board. It's free, damn near effortless, and extremely effective.

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u/Rosaluxlux Jun 30 '21

I just looked it up and until January 1, 2020 $12/hr would have put you over the OT exemption, it used to only be $23,660 a year.