alt text: 18 of our 40 employees are located in the Philippines. Insanely competent, great judgement, and $5 per hour. If you run a small business and don’t have overseas help you’re at a disadvantage

  • Verat
    725·
    10 months ago

    Minimum wage may not be the whole story, our minimum wage is $7.25 still and I dont think anyone believes that can be lived on here. The cost of living is more significant a measure of the pay’s fairness

    • sugar_in_your_tea
      543·
      10 months ago

      Cost of living is also much lower in The Philippines vs the US. A quick search says a 1br studio near Manila costs ~₱6,500/month, which is ~$115/month. The same thing costs about 10-20x that here in the US in a city.

      So $5/hr would be enough for a pretty nice lifestyle there, whereas it would be significantly below the poverty line here in the US.

    • youRFate@feddit.de
      191·
      10 months ago

      Right, he is paying about 4x minimum wage, which would be about $29/hr, that’s doable.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      10 months ago

      Funny note on that: Went to stay with a friend in Manhattan back in '91. Stunned by the prices I asked, “How does anyone survive on minimum wage?!”

      He laughed, “Man, nobody gets minimum wage here!”

      I’m in a poor county in Florida. 6 years ago, jobs could be found at the very bottom, no more.

    • Mossheart@lemmy.ca
      44·
      10 months ago

      Apparently the US government does, otherwise they’d have changed it…