How much an hour should I be paying this employee?

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Jane Marpl

Here are his tasks:

1. 80% of his time is spent on data entry
2. 20% of his time is spent on creating little programs with Access Base.
3. We let him upgrate his PC knowledge during work hours.
4. He does not speak much English.

Answer
1. Does he have a family, wife, kids?
2. Does he drive to work, own a car?
3. How old is he, educational background?
4. How long has he been here?
5. What will he work for, $$ ?
6. Is he responsible for his own keep?
7. How many hours a week, any chance for overtime?
8. What could the future with your company entail?
9. Can somebody else replace him in a heartbeat?

Gas at four bucks a gallon and rising expotentially, milk at 4.27 at walmart. The price of montly car payments, does he pay rent, car insurance, health insurance??, a prescription of antibiotics?, children?, wife?, pampers?, electric bill, stamps?.. How do people make it anymore on minimum wage... How do people make it at 4.00 over minimum wage?... How do I make it?...Aiiiyyyyyy!!!! Im drowning...glubblubblub...

What can he get by with without having to steal for a parttime job?... October 24th of 1938 the first federal minimum wage went into effect. it was .25 cents. The following year on the same date it went to .30 cents. It's currently at $5.85 and will go to $6.55 next month on the 24th. In 2009, the last federally mandated minimum wage increase will happen again on July 24th when it goes to $7.25. I don't know where you live but here is a State minimum wage list which varies from the Federal a little bit. http://www.laborlawcenter.com/state-Minimum-Wage-rates.asp (Copy and paste that). Personally Jane, I don't see how a one (1) person family can live on it and not be afraid to answer the telephone for listening to bill collectors. And $1.00 an hour more...or $120.00 a month more won't do much to keep them off of antidepressants if they could afford to get them somehow. If he was my employee, based on what you say he does, and the minimum amount of information that I had to make the call... I'd say maybe enough so that after taxes, he takes home $250.00 a week. That is if you can afford it. If not, then go less... But remember, you are the primary one responsible for anybody's life...(that's not coming out right)... that works for ya... if you know what I mean. Good luck, and I hope everything works out fine. PS... $6.55 x 40. = $262 less taxes is about what?... 200.--220? $262. x 52 = $13,624. Here are the 2008 Federal poverty level figures, I share them just for your awareness, and I think if somebody falls under those numbers, they may qualify for certain government assistances, not that you as an employer should or should not take that into consideration. http://www.atdn.org/access/poverty.html

You sound like somebody that would be fun to work for. You obviously care enough to concern yourself with fairness. It probably wouldn't be a fair question to ask yourself, how much you would require to work for you?...lol...assuming you could put up with ya. giggle

How has technology advanced since the 1960s?

Question M

So, how has technology advanced from 1963 to today? What is different and what is the same? What might we see from 2013 to 2063?

Answer
You do not know. We got electric in 1969. Some of the last on rule electrification. I seen my first computer in high school assembly. It was 18 inch's wide, 4 foot long, and 24 tall. In a wooden box. And could do some math. They said it was the future and we had a good laugh at that one. I bought my first hand held calculator in 1969. $20 buy the same today for $2. A days wages for one. In 5th grade a transistor radio was a hot Christmas gift. Few got one. Crews control in a car. Pull out the throttle cable and take your foot of the gas. In the 60s if you were willing to work you could always make out with a shovel and strong back. In truth the world changed in 1969,1970. I was very fortunate. Grandfather was the last blacksmith in the county. Hammer and forge man. And a good one.last of the horse wagons as well in towns, We seen the last of the old days pass away. In 1970 augers did the same work micro switch's for control, earning your way with a shovel died,we took the last mules to the tankage plant. As power skiders could get back in the swamp to log. And the world is changing again. What it will be I have no idea. But in high school I had no idea as well what today would be. I do know that after high school I only had 7 jobs were mules were involved. And we packed in our computers and solar cells to run them. I got those jobs because you young kids are dumb enough to walk behind a mule and don't think they bite at the other end. It has changed that much. From 1969 to today it became the electronic age. When I was in school if a show was on T.V they wanted you to watch. They made sure you could go to some ones house that had a T.V. I remember seeing my first color T.V. The color was so pale. And the sets so sensitive they had to be set in a vibration free area and dark room. But that technology created more jobs than they took. Expanding pros parity. To days technology does away with more jobs than it creates. And that I think is going to be a problem. The best will do well. I am retied now and hope I do not need to care about that. Because my skills are being rapidly out dated. Just like my grandfathers were. He was good,one of the best. But that way died with him. Today your a year out of the job market your skills are old fashion skills.

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