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Apple Increasing Starting Pay for Hourly Workers to at Least $22 Per Hour
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The amount of time retail staff is used per year compared to the number of products sold per year must add up to mere minutes per product, I doubt the price will even go up because Apple usually target even numbers with their prices, like $899. Apple won't raise the price of the next iPhone to $901.
In 8 years of my Motion Design Career (Freelance) I went from 0$ to 45$ per hour.
Raising prices can be hard and scary, but you have to be tenacious (provided you have a decent clientele that will keep working with you).
It was counterintuitive at firsf to ask for more, but clients appreciate the assertiveness.
I have 3 polishing clothes in the household
Right. People think nurses make so much money and in the south that’s new grad pay. Not that nurses are more important than anyone. But it’s like… why go 20k in debt to work an insanely stressful job for $22/hr.
"Retail pay minimum is rising 10% from $20 to $22 or more depending on location..."
I was wondering if it would vary by location. $22 is OK but not impressive here in SF Bay Area. Easily can consume all of that in rent and taxes
I was wondering if it would vary by location. $22 is OK but not impressive here in SF Bay Area. Easily can consume all of that in rent and taxes
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i hope this doesn't hurt stockholders. like many people here on macrumors, i only care about my own money.
Apple only doing the "right thing" now out of fear. Aholes.
Bring jobs back to USA. Bring the factories back to USA.
Amazon etc fighting union's and the dumb ppl believing the hype to fight unions. They are needed !
Bring jobs back to USA. Bring the factories back to USA.
Amazon etc fighting union's and the dumb ppl believing the hype to fight unions. They are needed !
Neither will a union, but at least some union bosses will make more money.
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They should unionize too.EMTs dont make that much
How many vacation days do they get though? Anything below 30 days and unlimited sick days is inhumane to me
When I worked at an store in SC in 2010-2011 I made $9 an hour as a part-time specialist. FT specialist made $10 an hour… in the words of one of Job's favorite songs: "the times are a changin'"
Price increase bound to happen. It’s inevitable. Such salary increase would just circulate the money back to apple eventually. Apple can pay $30/hr and it still doesn’t matter, except even crazier price increase.
Customers are always the group that foot the salary increase. Not apple. Not Tim Cook. Not anyone else.
Customers are always the group that foot the salary increase. Not apple. Not Tim Cook. Not anyone else.
Until no one is able to afford it and they have to lay off most of their workers or close retail stores, haha.
It's not like they are having an "oh ****" moment and raising it from $5. This was a 10% increase on their previous $20 base.
And bringing factories back to the US is in process, but it will take decades. You can't have factories doing manufacturing or assembly if they can't get the raw materials, parts or labor force.
It's less exciting than this. $22/hr is probably just the inflation-adjusted version of whatever they had before.
Edit: I only mean adjusted due to inflation, not keeping up with it.
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Exactly, it's a likely way to increase corruption or develop a tyranny of the majority.
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