Who else makes $15 / hr?

WinterStick

WinterStick

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I'm college educated person and in a job in which I use my degree. And I'm only getting paid $15 an hour. Janitors at McDonalds start at 10, so I want to know what kinds of shitty jobs are equivalent so I can gage how hard I work vs. how hard I should be working for such shitty pay.
 
yea if you say psychology and you are making 15 an hour that implies you have a job so congrats
 
i went promo-biking yesterday, basically you drive around in a go-cart with a billboard on the back, i made 15euro/hour for driving from 13h-19h, so 6 hours and i was allowed to stop and have a drink in the city center whenever i liked, as long as i made sure the bike was in plain sight ...

i really like it + it's a good workout for my legs :D
 
i buss tables and i host at a restaurant. for hosting i get paid $10/h, but bussing i make $5/h + tips which can range from 40-100 dollars. get a bussing job at a nice restaurant. you could easily make 120 in a night.
 
Thats rough dude. Definitely lower than average. But if you are just out of college, you need to prove your worth. I'd ask for a raise after you complete your first large project or after 6 months of employment.
 
My mom has a mater's degree in social work and only makes about that much. So college degrees don't always correlate with high pay
 
Sounds nice...

I'm a hostess and I make 3.25 an hour plus three percent of the tips and I only bring around 10-20 dollars a night most of the time unless it's really busy
 
I'm an accountant making $12, granted I'm the new guy and doing plenty of JE's and other data entry bitch work

Real world sucks
 
you majored in electrical engineering and you only make 15 an hour!?! thats nuts a journeyman electrician makes like 40 an hour and they just go do electrical shit in peoples houses. they dont engineer shit.
 
I make 15 and hour...

As a construction labourer (summer job while living at home) 1-3k pay checks make student life a lot better, but I imagine living your actual life would kind of suck with that level of pay.
 
Are you kidding me?

I know 3 EE majors who are all in their senior year at RPI. All make over $40 an hour at summer internships. 2 of them work on Wall Street.

One of the girls on Wall Street was recently offered a job out of college with a six digit salary.
 
yeah they figure 3.25+tips = minimum wage which is like 5 something

WA state has highest minimum wage + no state income tax....feels good man
 
plus tips makes it minimum wage...most of the time but i live in traverse city michigan...not getting any better jobs any time soon
 
Listen to this: I clean post offices (shitty right?) at first it sounded like awesome pay... I get paid per each post office that I clean. I usually clean one or two a day. My highest paying post office I get $30 for, and it usually takes about an hour to an hour and a half to clean. Not bad so far right? Well this post office, a long with others, is over an hour drive from my house so that's an hour there and an hour back, so in total about 3 1/2 hours to clean this one post office. PLUS there's more! I did it out and it costs me over $15 in gas to drive there, that is not compensated for. I'm still in highschool so I'm just glad I have a job, but I'll do the math for you... 30-15/3.5= a whopping: $4.28 an hour... woohoo...
 
sucks for you then. my brother is an electrical engineer. he got a job starting at $55k a year salary straight out of college. kids making bank
 
the federal gubment...it's actually 7.25

and yeah in washington it's 8.67 (and can't be any lower...even waiters make at least this + tips)
 
I make $10/hr now. But they are fully paying for my masters and my phD if I want it. At times it sucks only making $10/hr but then again they are paying 80k+ for my Masters so ill take it.

Its hard these days to find a good paying job.
 
Ahh, sorry bout that.

But yeah, I mean if you are really upset about your wages OP, and it doesn't seem like you have much room for advancement. I'd take a little journey down south and look around. CE and EE are two of the biggest needs for most new tech startups.
 
its funny how much you can make doing things people never think of. ive got a friend making 25 an hour as a rafting guide. another, a highschool drop out, if he "works" full time, can make like 3 grand in a week welding and selling jeep bumpers, sliders, doors and tire carriers, hes made jigs and pumps them out super fast when he wants to work. another friend who details cars, said his boss, makes over twice as much as he did as an engineer. just bought all the tools and materials to get started in auto detailing, and now he goes around cleaning awesome cars for a living making pretty damn good amount of money.

college is necessary for some people for sure, but a lot of people with the right skills and mind can make as much or more.
 
This my mom has an MBA in accounting an went from making around 100k a year to pretty much 15 an hour I think.
 
I made $15/hr waving a flag in a parking lot this summer for the Twins. And now $12/hr in the group home I work at playing video games and surfing the web. You got yourself a shitty job, sir.
 
I'm an assistant Psychologist for home and family counseling.

Most internships I looked at payed for a % of grad school, but this one payed for all of it since it is in the projects and I have to work there for 5 years (including grad school). So I do my two years making $10/payed grad school. Then I work 3 years for a salary. I love it.
 
Thank's for reinforcing my idea that a bachelor's degree is fucking pointless. I make more than you and am a high school dropout who didn't waste another four years doing stupid shit for a dumb degree. Maybe put another 4 years in and become successful, come on get your life together!
 
same same thing here! every year 2 years ago i was making 13,last year 14 and this year 15... next year im probably going to make 16/hour
 
Get a job in the oil industry as a graduate engineer... . EE's are in desperate need.

?! no brainer... drop me a line if you want more info - but you're wasting your degree right now.

You have to be prepared to move to where the good jobs are though...no matter where that is. if you're not - then you should be happy on your 15/hr. But you could be making nearly 8 times that.

 
If you have your degree in engineering from a decently good school and you are making less than $75,000 something is seriously wrong... Find a new job or get your master's.
 
i hope this is a trolling or a joke. i LOL at people bashing general education - it only proves how dumb they are.

knowledge is power children, be cool - stay in school.
 
you could go to grad school.

assuming about 60hrs a week we pull somewhere near a whopping $5 an hour after tax

*also the whole part of a free education so I'll shut up now
 
I'm going to be working at my job that pays like 12 an hour I think. Over the summer though I made a lot more than that.
 
if it's an internship or anything that you're getting experience credit with then that pay is completely fine. It's not until after you get that degree that it matters. You get taken advantage of for working a shit load but you gotta play the game.
 
i made 18 an hour over the summer and into fall doing jack squat for the government, working from home with my best friend. fuck i wish i could do that shit forever.
 
You don't know what you're talking about.

$15/hr is pretty beat though. I'll be making $15.50 this summer for unskilled labor. As someone else said, do well on your first project, prove yourself, and ask for a raise.

If not, start looking for new jobs.

Hell, you might want to start looking anyways. Find competitive wages and use it for leverage.
 
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