The current rate of $8.64 with benefits nets $416 a week income. Raising the minimum to $15 which removes those benefits nets a weekly income of $438.
A $22 a week increase of income, which will unfortunately vanish due to the cost of living increase which should (due to other cities as examples) raise around 4%. So, if your apartment is $650 a month, it will raise to roughly $700 a month. Not even counting everything else you buy.
I fucking love it here. I’m self taught no college and working an IT job in Maitland I was pulling 45k living with roomies in Oviedo cause I couldn’t afford to live anywhere remotely near downtown Orlando.
Here in Austin, doing a lower tier IT job I started at 70k and have a luxury apartment downtown by myself literally above the best nightlife for $1560 a month. To Austin, $1560 for an apartment is insanely high. Remember.... perspective.
And that was just my first job offer I didn’t bother to look I just took the first that hired me. Now that I’ve been here almost 2 years I’m quite sure I can find one making 90k+ with my experience from Florida getting a position more equal to my skill set.
As a native Floridian who moved to Austin?
Texas is still very Texas. It’s all about perspective. To Texans, Austin is very liberal compared to the rest of Texas so they make a huge deal about it.
Austin compared to Orlando? Orlando is 100000x more liberal than Austin. I honestly don’t think it’s possible for Austin to get to the liberal level of Orlando ever. Even the most diehard liberals here love guns, bbq, and think covid is a joke.
Oh for sure. When Washington raised the minimum wage they kept it just below poverty limits so people like single mothers could still get food assistance for their child.
Florida voters forgot about that and with the $15/hr minimum it puts everyone working full time above all poverty limits.
Austin was always a liberal hippy shithole whatcha talking about. Just as many homeless in the 80s as there is today, just back then you just didn’t notice cause EVERYONE was broke and homeless.
Now that we’re getting gentrified it’s becoming more noticeable.
Austin was always a liberal hippy shithole whatcha talking about. Just as many homeless in the 80s as there is today back then you just didn’t notice cause EVERYONE was broke.
Now you can tell because big tech brought in better paying jobs.
When you look through a microscope you never see the whole image.
I moved to Austin from Orlando. Orlando is 1000000x more liberal. Austin is very red the news just shows the 5 liberals out of 1 million not.
Saying Austin is liberal is like trying to make the word fetch a thing. No matter how many times you say it, it’s just not going to happen.
Yep, you can kiss medical insurance subsidized by your employer goodbye.