Avg McDonald's employee wage: $7.73. Ave hourly wage of McDonald's CEO: $9,274

You can make your own fries taste like McDonalds... you just parboil the fries first before deepfrying.

 

If you are truthful then you know damn well our cries of "poverty" is not "poverty"

 

Holy hell, find a new job that pays more.

I worked at Wendy's for 2 years during my High School years & I knew immediately that this was not a career choice for me. LOL

Fast food is a high school job, where kids take that paycheck and buy comics, games, you know....kids stuff.

 

That sounds like a subjective opinion.

2% of the work force makes minimum wage, and most of this is comprised of part time workers who are under the age of 24.

It's like Obamacare... we have to dramatically increase prices on everything just so the small minority can be subsidized.

What happens to the veterinary technician and technical support agent when they suddenly make the same amount of money was a burger flipper at McDonalds? Even though their skills are more valuable, we pay them the same? That makes no sense.

And what happens to the unskilled and unemployed when businesses hire way less people? When you increase the cost of something (in this case, labor), you get less demand for it. Very basic concept in Economics.

 

What a crappy deal for the CEO.

McDonald's 34,492 restaurants: where are they?
A new restaurant in Vietnam means that McDonald's will be serving up food in 116 countries around the world next year. See where they all are and find out how many restaurants there are per person in those countries

http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/jul/17/mcdonalds-restaurants-where-are-they

In terms of responsibility the CEO is getting $3.72 per hour for all the stores he's responsible for...

 

has nothing to do with lack of empathy.... in America, you always have the opportunity to improve yourself.....

Empathy I have, as I have worked behind the counter and worked myself up until I graduated college and got a job out of fast food. Sympathy for someone who squanders all the opportunities available to Americans because correct choices aren't always the most fun choices???? yeah, I have none for those kind.


The world needs low-skill labor.... best it be left for people who made low-skill choices in life

 

No, they are demanding $15 an hour.

Of course, when prices on everything rise, $15 an hour won't be enough, then we'll have to raise prices again.

 

Minimum wage should probably be pegged at whatever is enough for a person to live without having to supplement his/her income with social-services like food-stamps.

If the president of McDonalds insists that he can't possibly suvive on anything less than $9,274 per hour, such that he can't afford to pay workers enough to survive without collecting food-stamps on the side, then he should just make it official corporate policy that McDonalds does not hire anyone who actually needs to make a living... that candidates for employment must be teens still living at home, with parents to do the subsizing.

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Either that or do it like in Japan, where the top execs accept slightly less.

 

I currently am an employee at a Mc. Donalds and would very much so like to share my opinion on this topic if i may be so bold, requesting only that you do not disregard my comment due to my employment status. The discussion so far as i've seen revolves around whether or not entry level jobs should earn the subjective entry level wage, More specific to this introduction Mc Donalds and the minimum wage. We must be fair in saying these things, working at a fast food restaurant as a crew member is an entry level job. Being an entry level job it demands basic skills required of all work places including; conduct, ability for follow instruction in a timely manner, and obligation towards the task you are being paid to do. As i said before these are basic skills that are required of any job. Nevertheless the opinion arises that entry level employees do not earn enough. My response is this, entry level positions are intended for people entering the work force, and more often than not i hear this financial complaint from people in their mid-thirties or greater who have chosen to work there, note how i did not say "to do less with their lives". While it is troublesome to think that some families survive off a minimum wage income, we must remember what job they are completing and for whom the position was intended. My final note i hope is not taken as an attack, regarding the comparison of poverty in the United States to the poverty levels of a country such as Thailand or Vietnam is something i would like to avoid doing seeing as how in many instances the resourceful opportunity for both locations is at a seemingly different level. The only reason i say this is due to a lack of current knowledge surrounding the aspects that create these circumstances on my personal account, and so make my request passively.

 

Yes, because Japan is a really great example for us to follow. What are they now, 20 years into their early 90's recession? Maybe by Obama voter standards Japan's anemia is something to celebrate.

 

10/hr part time is no where near livable. Not even livable full time. Stop the stupid nonsense already.

 

Who told you that? You've obviously never lived on an Indian reserve, or spent any time growing up in a gheto.

And in terms of education, you should check out how they do it in western European and in the east-asian nations like Taiwan and Japan, where if you show the grades, you can just go all the way up to a PhD without having to mortage your future with student loans.

 

post your hourly salary and job description so we can compare it to other workers

 

10/hr is still dirt poor.

 

So what is it worth an hour?

 

Exactly spot on! This is my exact argument as well. For some reason it gets lost on many people.

 

I would like to make a one final humorous comment for the comity to observe, we dont actually flip burgers anymore, we push a button activate a timer and put the meat on and wait till its done. frying is easier than that it just takes longer, button and wait. frankly this shouldnt offend anyone its just for your enjoyment

 

Actually, in terms of human labor, what's most in demand now is what they call skilled-workers, which means electricians, plumbers, etc.

There's a surplus of low-skill labor, which is why it's been so easy for employers to drive down low-skill wages, and even then, if you paid attention to what's being done in robotics, you'd know that someday, not even that will be an option for people with no skills.

So what do you think should be done with all those unskilled workers who's jobs got taken over by robots? Set up mass-suicide centers? Force-relocate them to parts of the planet that climatologists know will be most devastated by global warming, such that you can balm your conscience by saying it was nature doing the killing? Put them in uniforms and march them against other nations' surplus unskilled labor in mass televised global gladiator spectacles called the Armageddon Games?

 

You ever buy the Oreida fast food fries? They taste EXACTLY like McD fries.

I won't be commenting on the topic of this thread , other than to say that the thread title is slightly incorrect , in that the quoted wage is for hourly NON management employees. That should have been clarified.

 

It's plenty to live on, at 40 hours a week, for a single person in just about any place other than the largest of cities. And it's above the poverty line, which gets the employees off of welfare.

 

ding ding ding

 

So... the reason you think unskilled workers should be paid below-poverty wages is because if they get paid enough to survive at poverty level, then you'd have to start paying trained, skilled workers something above poverty.

Keep it up... the Pope's PR team needs more poster-boy material like that to back up the Pontif's position on capitalism.

 

okay that is terrible, but i can't say i didn't laugh at the thought of the armageddon games and the global warming thing.