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Old 08-20-2013, 06:00 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
NBC news has a piece of a story on minimum wages, listing how long a minimum wage worker has to labor to buy a Big Mac meal:

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/time...mac-6C10945727

Wikipedia has the full story, a list of minimum wage by country (not pretty!):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ges_by_country

As it turns out, Amazon's US warehouse wages are in the top tier, right there with New Zealand and France.

The only countries with a significantly higher minimum wage are Australia and, amusingly... Luxembourg.
You will never convince the Amazon and Walmart haters that Amazon's and Walmart's wages are fair. Washington DC passed a special law that would require a new Walmart to pay 50% more than the Federal minimum wage and then it was pointed out that Washington DC didn't pay that themselves. They went by the Federal standard.
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