$13.26 per hour
 

I was driving down to Dayton yesterday when I came across a sign at the large greenhouse in Wapak for summer help wanted. The pay? $13.26 per hour. I couldn't help by wonder, why 13.26 per hour? Seems there has to be a competitive wage resaon behind it but why not 13.25 or 13.50. How do they come about a wage like 13.26 per hour? Weird thought, I know... but still. The other thought I had was, damn! working in the greenhouse pays pretty well. I'd have thought it would be a state minimum wage job for sure.

We are just north of Dayton.....you cant hire anyone for 13.26 (or even 13.27) an hour around here.....

Hard to hire people who get paid to stay at home. Same story in Wichita and basically everywhere else. The guy who put in our boat lift at Lake of the Ozarks said that none of the businesses there can find help despite massive demand. I can’t imagine a better job for a 20-something than living and working for the summer at a vacation lake.

Every business is different. And the same for employees and employers. And the industries and working conditions. Lots of variables.

For some situations $13.26 would be fine.

I always paid my helpers $20/hour - plus bonuses, if the situation warranted it.

One size never fits all.

$13.26 an hour in a greenhouse would be a wonderful job for a kid in high school or a college Summer job. It would be a laid back pace, with grateful customers, and not working inside.

If you don't want to pay Uncle Sam, around 13.00 per hr. @ 32 hrs. per week is all that you can earn on Social security if you started @ 62. This keeps senior folks as part time and you don't get health care offered.
All part of the big thumb - AKA - corporate America & the two political parties

The business I was delivering a machine to was saying he can't find help right now. Didn't ask what he pays.

I was in a burger place in Long Beach yesterday and they had a help wanted sign in the window...I should have taken a picture. Starting pay $14-17 an hour. I was surprised.

Businesses account for inflation of min wage. Be ahead of the curve so when it hits you aren't scrambling for extra funds....

The local Hobby Lobby here pays $17 per hour.

Because a non-rounded number appears to be scientifically calculated as the right number - and I am 99.7323% sure about that.

maybe based on what take home would be after fica etc to let the boss honestly say "you get 250/wk"

or perhaps to cover something they will turn around and deduct. like it is really $10/hr but insurance is mandatory and works out to about 3.26/hr needed to cover it.

That would make sense. I just thought $13.26 per hour seemed really strange.

Hmmmmm. What is that in Pesos...

275/hr

Assuming it is a standard 40 hour week, an annual salary of $27,580 for watering plants and cleaning up at a greenhouse, and it does not require much training, and no college degree. Not bad for a staring position for a high school dropout.

Denmark
MacDonald's - $ 22.00 per hr. & 6 weeks vacation

13.26 per hour sign got them free advertising

Wow, are hamburgers 20 Euro each?

Here in New Zealand it's the apple picking season. Not complicated work.

In Hawkes Bay there are tons and tons of apples rotting because we can't get seasonal workers, that we usually fly in from thousands of kilometres away, to pick them. Yet there are 10,000 Maoris and white trash people sitting on their arses, walking distance from the orchards, who can't be bothered picking them. Local pickers were offered very good money (much the same as I got working in a fully time career type job) but they are too lazy and prefer to receive unemployment benefit.

No one is allowed to call them out over it because we daren't say anything bad about the Maoris.

$13.26 an hour doesn't always mean 40 hours a week.