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Guide to not being homeless in Seattle

YellowSnow
YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,972 Founders Club
$17.00 per hour; 100% employer paid health insurance





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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 116,458 Founders Club
    17 bucks to flip burgers is pretty good. Especially if you're a teenager
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,972 Founders Club

    17 bucks to flip burgers is pretty good. Especially if you're a teenager

    It's enough to be able to still afford a dumpy to mediocre 1 bedroom apartment in a lot of parts of this city. And that's just the starting hourly wage.
  • allpurpleallgold
    allpurpleallgold Member Posts: 8,771
    Everyone knows fast food restaurants can’t afford wages that high, they’ll be out of business in a week.
  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 49,063 Standard Supporter

    Everyone knows fast food restaurants can’t afford wages that high, they’ll be out of business in a week.

    You severely underestimate the number of people who want to put Dicks in their mouth.

    They make it up in volume.

  • SFGbob
    SFGbob Member Posts: 33,221

    Everyone knows fast food restaurants can’t afford wages that high, they’ll be out of business in a week.

    Everyone knows that a fast food restaurant won’t ever pay a wage that high unless they are forced to by the government.
  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,494

    $17.00 per hour; 100% employer paid health insurance





    And they have a generous scholarship program for kids wanting to go to college.
  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 24,687
    edited July 2019
    SFGbob said:

    Everyone knows fast food restaurants can’t afford wages that high, they’ll be out of business in a week.

    Everyone knows that a fast food restaurant won’t ever pay a wage that high unless they are forced to by the government.
    A little disingenuous because for at least the past 40 years, Dick's has pretty much looked at minimum wage and bumped its starting wage accordingly. Dick Spady hated unions, but was willing to offer higher wages and good benefits in order to retain employees and keep unions away from his business. There are employees at my local Dick's that have been there at least a decade and they're making $24+ per hour. There have been a few changes to the business since Dick Spady died, but it continues to be a pretty good place to work.