If you could raise minimum wage what would you raise it to?

Answer 1

I would have to raise it to $18 per hour. Since it has been proven that people need to make a minimum if $13 an hour just to be able to afford the bare minimum(family of 4 w/both parents working). Now days there are alot of single parents(mom and dads)the minimum wage should be more than that to be able to help those single parents out there to raise and support them and their children proplerly and have less penny pinching to worry about.

Answer 2

The biggest misconception about the "minimum wage" is that the Federal Minimum wage is controlling in all 50 States.

Not so, the Federal minimum wage is a "floor". While an employer can't go below that wage, except in a number of exceptions, like waiter/ waitress, drivers, and others, for the most part the States have enacted there own minimum wages laws that are usually higher than the Federal Government's. So all the talk coming out of Washington regarding the Federal Minimum Wage is merely the political blowhards who are trying to gain points with the uninformed.

Answer 3

I'd do away with the minimum wage completely and allow people to take a job for any wage they are willing to take. The main effect of the minimum wage is to ensure that a large fraction of people with minimal skills remain unemployed: they can't contribute enough to an employer so that the employer will make more money by hiring them instead of hiring nobody, so they don't get a job.

If you think that raising the minimum wage to a "living wage" will work in a way that will make sure that people earn enough money to live, why don't you just vote to raise the minimum wage to a "rich wage" (say, $10,000 per hour) so that everyone is rich? Since you know that won't work, why do you think the "living wage" idea would work?

Answer 4

Let us be real. If I were to raise the minimum wage, I would raise it to $10.00. If there is too massive an increase, many companies would go out of business and employees would be in a worst position than they were before. Not only that but this only means that the price index would be increase since spending power is now greater. Thus, there isn't a real increase. Increasing it to $10.00 is not too high an hike and will serve to gradually build the economy assuming that this change wont affect prices, and workers save the excess they have.

Answer 5

I would raise the minimum wage to between $35.00 and $40.00 per hour because that would provide sufficient income to almost anybody to have an adequate lifestyle.

The fact that it would be economic nonsense does not bother me because I am more interested in fairness than reality.

The same point can be made about a legally mandated minimum at any hourly rate.

Answer 6

I'd do away with it completely, in favor of a program that teaches people what to expect from their jobs. Take your monthly expenses, double that, and if you're being offered less than that, you're being ripped off. Sadly, I'd imagine that 90% of employees are these days, and have no way of knowing it, and doubt their ability to do anything about it.

The minimum wage is rising here this next month. And what good is it doing? NONE. Because the inflation to -cover- that cost, and the added expenses hit us back in September. If anything, we're LOSING 3 months worth of payrate, as a result.

People just need to stop being desperate whores, and settling for less than they need from a full (or near-full)-time job. 12-16 hour days shouldn't be required to hit the POVERTY LINE. And something's wrong with a society (like mine) that helplessly accepts that.

Answer 7

First of all I would lower the polititians salaries and benefits to those of the minimum wage earner. Then raise the minimum wager earner to what the polititian was making. At least that way both would be getting paid what they are worth.

Answer 8

it doesn't matter everytime minimum wage goes up so does the cost of living

Answer 9

$10.00 an hr.
it is $7.75 in Oregon come 01/01/07