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Old 05-24-2020, 02:12 AM
EA
 
Location: Las Vegas
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Doesn't every job pay like 9 bucks an hour in Orlando?
I have a few friends that live there and they all ***** about the wages.
Vegas has (might be had at this point) a wide variety of jobs and incomes.

The poorest people I know out here are making 40k+

 
Old 05-24-2020, 08:23 AM
 
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Old 05-24-2020, 08:46 AM
 
Location: Here and there, you decide.
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I was a bit emotional when I made that comment. I had my wisdom teeth yanked out (all 4) on Wednesday. I’m also a cigarette smoker and haven’t had any since and the withdrawals are intense

If I WERE to go back to Florida, getting a job would be no problem. It’d be entry level and wouldn’t pay much but a lot of my ex coworkers are now in management with that company and I’ve been asked to come back to work there plenty of times so I’m not worried about that. Having a 5 figure savings account helps too. I’d be going to Orlando, my hometown which like Vegas is tourism heavy but my job wouldn’t be tourism related so I’d be good there in terms of job safety. I am going to take time to see how things play out....

And while Florida may be just as tourism heavy as us, if not more....at least they’re being proactive on getting things going again and not making stuff up as they go along, unlike Sisolak....

I guess it really is a wait and see type deal. It’s homesickness too, I miss my family
You’d be 90 minutes from me.
 
Old 05-24-2020, 08:50 AM
 
Location: Here and there, you decide.
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Doesn't every job pay like 9 bucks an hour in Orlando?
I have a few friends that live there and they all ***** about the wages.
Vegas has (might be had at this point) a wide variety of jobs and incomes.

The poorest people I know out here are making 40k+
No even Walmart pays 12+ for full time. Yes, there are minimum wage jobs, and lots of them, but they are really weak jobs.
Vegas pays more to start but it evens out later.
In my opinion, the trick is to own your own business.
 
Old 05-24-2020, 11:11 AM
 
Location: Tucson/Nogales
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No even Walmart pays 12+ for full time. Yes, there are minimum wage jobs, and lots of them, but they are really weak jobs.
Vegas pays more to start but it evens out later.
In my opinion, the trick is to own your own business.
It helps that Las Vegas is largely a union city. Yes, only the Strip is unionized, to my knowledge, but the constant fear of other enterprises being pressured to unionize helps the wages, IMO.

When I moved to Sinless City in 1996, I was working as a CNA, for $7.50 an hour in low wage AZ, and when I moved to Vegas, the starting wage for a CNA, at a LTC/Rehab facility was $11 an hour. I attribute that to the unions in town, even tho' CNA's are not unionized.
 
Old 05-24-2020, 01:07 PM
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Location: Las Vegas
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No even Walmart pays 12+ for full time. Yes, there are minimum wage jobs, and lots of them, but they are really weak jobs.
Vegas pays more to start but it evens out later.
In my opinion, the trick is to own your own business.



I never want another w2 as long as I live. Going on 4 years self employed.
 
Old 05-24-2020, 05:28 PM
 
Location: Here and there, you decide.
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I always worked for someone in Vegas but also had my own business. Here, just the self employment
 
Old 05-24-2020, 08:39 PM
 
Location: Southwest
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It helps that Las Vegas is largely a union city. Yes, only the Strip is unionized, to my knowledge, but the constant fear of other enterprises being pressured to unionize helps the wages, IMO.

When I moved to Sinless City in 1996, I was working as a CNA, for $7.50 an hour in low wage AZ, and when I moved to Vegas, the starting wage for a CNA, at a LTC/Rehab facility was $11 an hour. I attribute that to the unions in town, even tho' CNA's are not unionized.

Yep. This is why American workers at foreign auto companies make good or relatively good money. The companies prefer if they don't unionize so they pay them well or relatively well.
 
Old 05-24-2020, 08:40 PM
 
Location: Southwest
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I always worked for someone in Vegas but also had my own business. Here, just the self employment
Relatives are trying to get me to move to FL. Too personal to ask the area you are in?
 
Old 05-25-2020, 01:41 PM
 
Location: Here and there, you decide.
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Relatives are trying to get me to move to FL. Too personal to ask the area you are in?
80 miles north of Tampa. Very quiet on an acre for less than 1/3 what I sold Vegas house for. Same size house too.
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