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KLXVER on 18 October 2022
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DonFerrari said:
sc94597 said:

Which is irrelevant to the original point. Again, the point isn't about if it is a full-time job or not, but whether or not it is fair compensation. Fair compensation isn't determined solely by the employer, according to most people's standards in developed societies since about the mid-19th century when working class people reacted to the excesses of Capitalism. 

To suggest what is "fair' is what the employer says is fair is a far-right wing view held mostly by right-wing "libertarians" and radical market liberals/neo-liberals. Attempting to normalize that position is harmful to working people. 

Never seem any right wing, no matter how extreme, saying that the fair wage is decided solely by employer. At most I have seem they say "if you think the wage is bad don't accept the work and look for another one", and this based on free market and finite resources as if company only pay the bare minimum they will only get the worse employees as his competitors will pay a little more to get the more talented. But that is besides the point.

It just seems klxver doesn't understand the difference between being full time employee that gets his Weekly wage (based on a year wage), that can be or not enough - another discussion -, and work you hire a specialist for a short time and those usually are much much higher in cost per hour but a lot lower on yearly cost. The basic idea is that most of those specialists won't be working full time all year (if they did that VA would be making 4k*50 = 200k a year, which is more than 4 times the average you pointed). Very few VAs will be fully occupied (and those certainly would be much more than 4k a week of payment).

It is very similar to other services you hire. When you hire a plumber you won't pay 15 USD/h of the work he do, or perhaps 5 USD to solve your issue as if you would fraction the minimum wage, nope they are going to request you a minimum fee plus a hourly fee that is much higher than weekly based wages.

So because some VAs dont work many hours each year, they should get ridiculous money so they can live of it? Its just ridiculous. Its not a full time job. So yes, getting 250$ per hour is alot. Thats like 10 times higher than your average wage. I mean where do you get the idea that VAs should be paid much higher for way fewer hours of work? Just because its not certain if they will get another gig? Well people who only work 3 days a week should get paid the same as someone working 5 days a week, because sure why not... Silly.