Is 20.00 an hour pretty good now a days?

[ackmondual]

Originally Posted by bobsell

If he did, he'd get laid off and replaced by a newbie at $18/hour, only after he trained him up.

Seems like that would work itself out. If the company raised him to $32/hr, then he would've been getting on average 5.5% raise every year. If that were the case, they choose to keep him on. Granted, they could've been slow in replacing him. OTOH, he would've left a long time ago in pursuit of better pay. $20/yr in 2011 isn't bad, but it's not difficult to improve upon that.

[pvande55]

Originally Posted by Rhenzanite

I make slightly more than that and thank my lucky stars that I do. Where I live, the cost of living is ridiculously high and wages have always been low. I recently interviewed for a store manager position for a newly opened company in town and could believe what they were offering... Aw store manager I would be overseeing 20-30 employees, doing all the payroll, HR, scheduling, inventory etc, and they offered a whopping $13 an hour.

Why do people keep living there?

[dazeddude8]

Obviously this answer will largely depend on your cost of living but in an era where the low level office job that once was at least 15$ an hour is now paying 12 or 13$ an hour (with 15$ an hour seeming a almost pipe dream), then yeah 20$ an hour is pretty dam good. I am sure all the retail, fast food and low level office workers making 13$ or less would love to be making 20$ an hour.

[HB2HSV]

This thread makes me appreciate what I earn. It's humbling to know there are people in different part of country struggling with making it with $20 an hour or less.

I bought my very first house while making $15 an hour. I did not feel poor then.