- Sep 19, 2011
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The major lack of understanding by $15 national minimum wage supporters is the employer is actually going to be paying MORE than the $15.00/hr. wage.
Most people don't realize an employer MATCHES employee's Social Security/Medicare payments...i.e. each pays 6.2% of total wages.
So for example a McDonalds with 15 minimum wage employees working 40 hours per week will cost the employer $241,800 more per year PLUS nearly $15,000 in additional SS/Medicare payments or nearly $256,000 more per year.
Now again... look at typical franchise operating expenses.
If the NET operating income BEFORE the $15 minimum wage was $153,900..
IT would be operating at a loss of $102,100!
Think the McDonald's franchise owner would:
A) consider letting some of the full time workers go?
B) replace them with robots?
C) Definitely raise the prices!
D) Close the business.
These are the realities the owners are to face if forced to pay a national minimum wage of $15.00.
Totally stupid when Mississippi operates at 80% of American cost of living versus New York at 140% where the minimum wage of $15 is not enough.
ONE SIZE does NOT FIT All 50 states folks!
Most people don't realize an employer MATCHES employee's Social Security/Medicare payments...i.e. each pays 6.2% of total wages.
So for example a McDonalds with 15 minimum wage employees working 40 hours per week will cost the employer $241,800 more per year PLUS nearly $15,000 in additional SS/Medicare payments or nearly $256,000 more per year.
Now again... look at typical franchise operating expenses.
If the NET operating income BEFORE the $15 minimum wage was $153,900..
IT would be operating at a loss of $102,100!
Think the McDonald's franchise owner would:
A) consider letting some of the full time workers go?
B) replace them with robots?
C) Definitely raise the prices!
D) Close the business.
These are the realities the owners are to face if forced to pay a national minimum wage of $15.00.
Totally stupid when Mississippi operates at 80% of American cost of living versus New York at 140% where the minimum wage of $15 is not enough.
ONE SIZE does NOT FIT All 50 states folks!