A customer overheard me philosophize on what young adults should be paid for work. At a restaurant, our margins are pretty thin so $8 for a guy with no skills and no value is pretty reasonable. If they can be useful I'll bump it up to $10. If they can work with little supervision the sky's the limit!
Of course I'm splitting tips among the hourly workers. They end up with at least $20 for a 4-hour shift, though on the weekends they got over $70 a few times. (If my customers won't tip, I'll bump up the prices and raise wages to compensate.) At the end of the day, they should be bringing in $15-$20/hr once they show me they can do real work. You can't raise a family on that kind of money, but I'm not asking for much.
The customer who overheard me ran his own business. He said he wouldn't hire anyone with experience. He'd rather train young people. His starting wage was $15 for a guy with no skills. Since actual work is way harder than restaurant work, and requires far more detailed skills, I agreed that was a good strategy.
Folks, $15/hr at 40 hrs/week adds up to around $30k/year. If you're still living with your parents, that's good money. I am sure once you learn the trade he'll bump up your pay accordingly. I know these guys bill out at $100 to $150/hr of work, so I imagine if they had a guy that could do the job with little supervision, $50/hr = $100k /year is not unreasonable. That kind of money is enough to raise a family if you're careful with your budget and your wife is cooking home-made meals and watching the kids. I know lots of guys doing just that in our town.
I'm more than happy to pay trade guys $150/hr of work, especially if they do the job right the first time. I don't negotiate with them. I figure the first price is the fair price. If the price is out of my range, I'll let them know I'll contact them when I have enough money to pay for it.
Of course, if they show up to work with a bunch of mexicans, I'm out. Sayonara amigo. I'll hire the guy that hires American workers, not the burrito eaters.
If my restaurant isn't bringing in $1m in revenue a year with something like $300k raw profit, I'm doing something wrong. I'm more than happy to share my revenue with people who are worth hiring to do jobs I need done. I hire local as much as I can!
This is in rural Texas, by the way.
You just don't realize it yet
In America, we live better than your royalty ever lived. Because we're not degenerate sociopaths and we actually care about each other.
second of all, you are a ridiculous liar. considering the first point, i would have it no other way. isn't half your population currently celebrating the gruesome death of a public figure, you dumb tribal fuck? you live in hovels for $5000 a month, eat slop, and if you cut yourself on a dirty needle in one of those shitholes you call a "city" a jew puts you into debt for a year to treat it. the only reason you're not begging God to give you a way back to your ancestral land, if indeed you are a White American, is because you've found a way to swindle desperate Whites to help you sell tacos to the local mexican population there in New New Mexico.
> hostile to an European
Your own idiocy is hostile to Europe. You guys threw my ancestor in prison for literally no reason, kept him there for over a year when there was no one who accused him of a crime at all. When you finally let him go, we packed our bags and left for the middle of nowhere USA. On the other side of my family, you guys thought that maybe not sleeping with every Tom, Dick and Harry was too "puritan" for you, so you kicked us out of England and the continent and we ended up building our own civilization with rules like "Maybe we shouldn't sleep with each other". Now you Europeans look at us like were freaks of nature because we don't pee in public and we don't rape each other day and night.
> live in hovels for $5000 a month
I don't. I own my home, and I only pay a modest property tax every year.
> eat slop
No I don't
> city
I don't go near those jew-infested shitholes. You Europeans might feel at home there, though. I don't.
> sell tacos to mexicans
Ridiculous.
You eurotrash have no conception of what it means to be an American in America. You think the news and the internet fairly represents what we experience every day. Why? Because you and your ancestors are degenerate ingnoramuses that threw out everyone worth saving 200 years ago.
You're living in a 3rd world shithole and you don't even realize it.