http://www.cepr.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1080&Itemid=8
To me, jobbling through profit-first private-sector America can't be done for under $20 an hour, without a sense of oppression on top of the for-sure for-sure exploitation, no matter the wage. But I'm prissy that way. According to the aforementioned mobility agenda at CEPR, a bum wage is anything paying less than about $11 per hour*, and their total on these deeply sunk wage smurf type jobs is 40 million, or about 1 in 3. Hey, 1 in 4 pay downright poverty wages**!
So what's this mobility mob's notion of a well-compensated job? One paying over $16 per hour (about four bits shy of the median) and in addition, has a serious company contribution to a health insurance plan, and at least some sort of defined contribution pension plan.
About 1 in 4 of us jobblers are holding down one of those beauties.
Ahh ain't this our America somethin'? Gotta love the place -- errr, if you can't afford to leave it.
*$11.11 per hour or less, less than 2/3 of the median male wage rate of $16.65.
**$9.83 per hour.
