alt text: 18 of our 40 employees are located in the Philippines. Insanely competent, great judgement, and $5 per hour. If you run a small business and don’t have overseas help you’re at a disadvantage

    • Verat@sh.itjust.works
      725·
      9 months ago

      Minimum wage may not be the whole story, our minimum wage is $7.25 still and I dont think anyone believes that can be lived on here. The cost of living is more significant a measure of the pay’s fairness

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
        533·
        9 months ago

        Cost of living is also much lower in The Philippines vs the US. A quick search says a 1br studio near Manila costs ~₱6,500/month, which is ~$115/month. The same thing costs about 10-20x that here in the US in a city.

        So $5/hr would be enough for a pretty nice lifestyle there, whereas it would be significantly below the poverty line here in the US.

      • youRFate@feddit.de
        191·
        9 months ago

        Right, he is paying about 4x minimum wage, which would be about $29/hr, that’s doable.

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        9 months ago

        Funny note on that: Went to stay with a friend in Manhattan back in '91. Stunned by the prices I asked, “How does anyone survive on minimum wage?!”

        He laughed, “Man, nobody gets minimum wage here!”

        I’m in a poor county in Florida. 6 years ago, jobs could be found at the very bottom, no more.