Prize fighting at group home

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I thinks it's the same here...lowest bidder gets the tender to supply services. However as both know the US seems to operate on a different standard when it comes to salaries which employers are allowed to negotiate.

The answer to the rhetorical question over how does a carer live on $7/hr is that that they don't, I believe 25% of the US workforce can be classified as "working poor" who require more than one job to basically live on or even below the poverty line.

Here in Australia we have a minimum wage but certain jobs - aged care, disability, child care, cleaners etc locals don't want these jobs so they tend to go to migrants and to unskilled jobless who have no other choices.

I know seven an hour is real low, I worked in an office for a company like we are talking about for about three or four months. Calculating payroll was a nightmare because of the way that everyone tried to squeeze in an extra hour or two by the way they did their math.

Group home work in Massachusetts used to be about $7.50 per hour but now minimum wage is $12.75 per hour in Mass so pay has gone up,min. wage in Mass will be $15 an hour by 2023 as it goes up in slow incriments.

When I give the seven an hour quote, I am going off of memory from several years ago. I figured minimum wage has gone up a little bit.

When I give the seven an hour quote, I am going off of memory from several years ago. I figured minimum wage has gone up a little bit.[/quote]

For instance in New Hampshire minimum wage is still the federal minimum of $7.15 per hour,but in New Hampshire there no no taxes though,so things are cheaper.

I am talking about Florida, about ten years ago, when I speak of my experience of briefly working for that company.

My stepdaughter used to work for a care agency . Her rate of pay was about £9.00 an hour . She does some independent care work now and gets paid better . Even so it's not a lot of money .