Is it true that............?

Question

Is it true that the minimum wage in Mexico is four dollars for an eight hour day?

Just got back from Cancun this morning, this is what the locals told me. Can you imagine surviving on four dollars a day? Hmmmm>>>>

Answer 1

I'm from Mexico, and yes, that is aproximately the minimum wage in all the country for an eight hour day. In some regions a little more. I could give you a more extend answer, but i answered just exactly what you asked.

Answer 2

The theory of relativity applies.

During the Great Depression (still don't understand what was so great about it) American workers, those who had jobs, were making that and sometimes less. My first job paid $1.65 an hour. Of course a small apartment was around $65-75. You are looking at Mexico wages and US cost of living. Did you notice the price of gasoline or what a loaf of bread cost. That's what I mean by the theory of relativity.

Don't misunderstand, I don't believe everyone in the world earns a comfortable living. In fact many don't but in the same statement one must ask what can they buy and what can't they buy with that wage. My Dad told me one time that the value of gold never changes, just it's cost. Two thousand years ago an ounce of gold would buy 200 loaves of bread, today it will by 200 loaves of bread.

All I am asking is that you look at the whole picture and not just a small portion of it. After all if you couldn't survive at all on $4.00 a day, wouldn't they all be dead.

Answer 3

It could be.

In Peru and Nicaragua, the minimum wage is three dollars a day.

Places like Cancun, which rely heavily on a single industry, like tourism, tend to be underdeveloped, so that wages are low, because you can't switch from being a waiter, for example, to a telecommunications technician by going to night school.

We are an immensely wealthy country.

Most humans on the planet do not work for wages or operate in the global economy directly, although this does not mean that they are not impacted by decision-makers far away. Many people on this great planet of plenty survive (if you can call it that) on less than two dollars a day.

Kind of doesn't seem fair to make their governments pay billions of dollars in INTEREST on loans from the World Bank and the IMF, huh?

here's something to chew on:

http://www.50years.org/factsheets/debt.html

Answer 4

What you don't know is that about half the people on the world survive with less than 1 dollar a day.

Answer 5

A helper on a construction site usually makes $2.50us an hour and the guys that know what they are doing - more like $3.50

People that work in an average local store are usually part of the family that owns it.

Everybody does not have their own apartment or hoiuse ... for sure

Answer 6

Yes its true, but statistics have it that 50% of the population earn 8 dlls a day and more. The rest survive on 4 dlls and less a day, that is depending if they have a job.

Answer 7

Yes, but thats the minimun and it doesnt mean that everybody earns the same salary.

I used to work in a japanese factory (in mexico facility) as customer service and my salary was 45 dlls per day (8 hrs) plus benefits.

Answer 8

Actually, I went on some mission trips last year, and the really, really poor places we went to, people earned five dollars a week. They live in these metal shed type houses and sleep on cardboard.

Answer 9

I don't know if this is true or not...but what's the MAXIMUM wage in Mexico? I expect that most Mexicans are aiming for that.

Answer 10

no i dont really agree. that suck for those people.