St. Louis will drop minimum wage from $10 to $7.70.

[TheBlackNaruto]

Dulfite said:

TheBlackNaruto said:

I live in teh St. Louis are as well and yes we do get things A LOT cheaper here as far as living goes than other places(depending on what area in St. Louis you might live in I.E North County, Olivette, Kirkwood, South County, U. City etc). But I muts say $10 should still be the minimum when it comes to wages. We are not THAT cheap.....

I live in St. Charles actually, but used to live in Maryland Heights. Obviously the standard for minimum wage should go up with inflation and cost of living over the years (I think someon calculated out that if it went up proportionally, it would be like $20 an hour right now) so I get that. But one of the benefits of it being lower is then MORE people have jobs. The higher it goes, the higher unemployment gets through job consolidation or simply replacing humans with machines. Is it worth having some people better off while others lose their job and source of income for their families?

Oh no i agree 100%......$10 should remain the minimum for franchises I would say and $7.70 for small busniness is fine because when you are starting off and building up then you can't afford to pay that $10. I just think the system needs work. The job scene here isn't currently the best but it is still managable so this here is not bad but depending on whoa ll it impacts is the issue imo.