I'm sorry I stated our minimum wage rate wrong. Actually, Alabama doesn't have a minimum wage rate, it adopts the federal minimum rate. So, Alabama's state minimum wage rate is $7.25 per hour.
The Alabama minimum wage was last changed in 2008, when it was raised $0.70 from $6.55 to $7.25.
Alabama does not have a state minimum wage - instead, they adopt the current Federal Minimum Wage rate of $7.25 per hour.
Alabama employers may not pay you under $7.25 per hour unless you or your occupation are specifically exempt from the minimum wage under state or federal law.
There are other places that will pay more (like $10 - $12 an hour for new hires) but $7.25 is the minimum wage here. My daughter is getting into the beauty industry and was just hired with the $8 an hour. She will probably not be getting much if any commission or tips for awhile until she actually starts working on hair.
Her last few jobs, her wage was more in the $10 - $12 range, but she needs to get her foot in the salon doors, and it isn't always easy to do.
Even at $10 -$12 an hour, you can't live off of that these days. She's still at home with us and she is in her 20's. We are hoping after she finishes school and gets her feet wet in the industry, she will be able to start making more money to fully support herself. 🤞
Well, if there was a good man out there around her age that would actually stick around, have a good job and treat her right, treat her like she should be treated... then she would like to get married and have a family. But until then, she has to do what she has to do.
I told her I want her to have a career/craft that she could fall on whenever she may need to if she did get married and have a family. I never had that, I don't have anything that I'm particularly great at, that I could do now that I'm older and the kids all grown up. I have some disabilities that make it to where no one would hire me, because I couldn't be dependable because of those disabilities. Wish I had some craft/hobby that I was good enough at to keep me busy and make a little money.
Those wages are unlivable in the modern day, 40k per year is poverty line in california
I'm sorry I stated our minimum wage rate wrong. Actually, Alabama doesn't have a minimum wage rate, it adopts the federal minimum rate. So, Alabama's state minimum wage rate is $7.25 per hour.
https://www.minimum-wage.org/alabama
There are other places that will pay more (like $10 - $12 an hour for new hires) but $7.25 is the minimum wage here. My daughter is getting into the beauty industry and was just hired with the $8 an hour. She will probably not be getting much if any commission or tips for awhile until she actually starts working on hair.
Her last few jobs, her wage was more in the $10 - $12 range, but she needs to get her foot in the salon doors, and it isn't always easy to do.
Even at $10 -$12 an hour, you can't live off of that these days. She's still at home with us and she is in her 20's. We are hoping after she finishes school and gets her feet wet in the industry, she will be able to start making more money to fully support herself. 🤞
She should be a wife, not working every day she isn't pregnant is a day wasted.
Well, if there was a good man out there around her age that would actually stick around, have a good job and treat her right, treat her like she should be treated... then she would like to get married and have a family. But until then, she has to do what she has to do.
I told her I want her to have a career/craft that she could fall on whenever she may need to if she did get married and have a family. I never had that, I don't have anything that I'm particularly great at, that I could do now that I'm older and the kids all grown up. I have some disabilities that make it to where no one would hire me, because I couldn't be dependable because of those disabilities. Wish I had some craft/hobby that I was good enough at to keep me busy and make a little money.