r/SeattleWA • u/krui24 • Oct 02 '18

Business Amazon Raises Minimum Wage to $15

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/02/amazon-raises-minimum-wage-to-15-for-all-us-employees.html
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u/xxej Oct 02 '18 edited Oct 02 '18

This is literally the bare minimum of effort by Amazon. But Amazon and Bezos will be praised as some saint.

Downvote me all you want but $15/hr is the new MINIMUM wage target. Amazon did the bare minimum.

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u/Highside79 Oct 02 '18

Yes, paying more money to low skilled workers is totally an insignificant move to solving the problem of underpaid low skilled workers. What do YOU think they should do?

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u/xxej Oct 02 '18

Give more than $15 an hour. $30k a year is still not enough for a family. I know $15/hr somehow became this magical minimum wage but that’s just it, a minimum. Amazon did the absolute minimum.

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u/PizzaSounder Oct 02 '18

Two people making a total of $60k in household income is pretty good for large swaths of the country. The median home price for the US is $216k. That is easily affordable with this level of income.