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Minimum wage
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Earl Weiss
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Chicago has implemented a 2 stage minimum wage.
Effective now. If you have a new contract with the City you must pay a minimum of $13.00. It will be interesting to see what happens when the City vehicle washing contracts come up for renewal. They currently pay $7.00 for a Full service wash. (The contract is several years old) and I heard one operator told them that with the new wage requirement they would need to pay $27.00 per car. Surprising the $13.00 wasn't qualified for contracts over $XXX or employees / sales over YYY.
They have another across the board increase which may be challenged in court stating all employees in the City must be paid a minimum of $10.00.
Have operators considered offsetting other "Benefits". For instance, and this is just an example. If the increase mandates an across the board increase of $1.00 per hour (because all employees will want more if the new people get $10.00 people with more tenure want to be paid more. ) an empoyee working 2000 hours a year gets a $2000 raise. That same employee may get a 2 week paid vacation, and a 1 week holiday bonus. This is an off set of 120 Hours. At the minimum wage rate this is $1200.00. If this is eliminated the net increase in cost for the minimum wage meployee is $800.00.
Plug in your own wage rates and bonus items to see how the offset works.
Effective now. If you have a new contract with the City you must pay a minimum of $13.00. It will be interesting to see what happens when the City vehicle washing contracts come up for renewal. They currently pay $7.00 for a Full service wash. (The contract is several years old) and I heard one operator told them that with the new wage requirement they would need to pay $27.00 per car. Surprising the $13.00 wasn't qualified for contracts over $XXX or employees / sales over YYY.
They have another across the board increase which may be challenged in court stating all employees in the City must be paid a minimum of $10.00.
Have operators considered offsetting other "Benefits". For instance, and this is just an example. If the increase mandates an across the board increase of $1.00 per hour (because all employees will want more if the new people get $10.00 people with more tenure want to be paid more. ) an empoyee working 2000 hours a year gets a $2000 raise. That same employee may get a 2 week paid vacation, and a 1 week holiday bonus. This is an off set of 120 Hours. At the minimum wage rate this is $1200.00. If this is eliminated the net increase in cost for the minimum wage meployee is $800.00.
Plug in your own wage rates and bonus items to see how the offset works.
Whale of a Wash
5 Washes 36Bays 2Vectors
If only government understood those wages will lose jobs, but they don't want a higher wage for the people.
Higher wages pay more taxes, more taxes is what they want. If government is for any cause it must make them money, and also the inverse.
Higher wages pay more taxes, more taxes is what they want. If government is for any cause it must make them money, and also the inverse.
