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Local farmer posted an ad on CL today he wants a good hard working farm hand going to pay $8 to $10 hour.I'm sure he'll be complaining 'no one wants to work anymore'. Some local fast food places pay $12+
 
He is living in the way long ago past if he thinks anyone will work for that. And I echo the statement that he will complain he can't get any help, no one wants to work. In 1970, you may have been able to get pretty good help at that rate. Just my opinion mind you. gobble
 
There's $20 an hours jobs here that can't get filled in an cooled and heated clean environment.
 
Wish I was making ten dollars an hour, I would be very happy. Haven't had a raise since I started this job twenty years ago for minimum wage at the time.
 
When I was in Washington, minimum wage was $12. In Seattle it was $15 or $16 depending on the size of the employer, unless the employer loaded you up with benefits, then it was $12. If I took a job for $8 an hour, it'd better be within walking distance. My truck only gets 8 or 9 mpg & would eat most of my paycheck just going to & from work. I wish the guy luck finding help in this world of youthful slackers.

Mike
 
Where would that be? I been working since 1968 and I have never seen a job that paid more than twelve dollars an hour. I am either in the wrong place or in the wrong job category.
 
(quoted from post at 13:46:34 10/19/20) Why is it that some folks that $8-$12 is a decent wage for difficult labor.
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Depending on what kind of person it is, farm-type jobs could be a labor of love, so to speak.

As a younger person, I would have preferred the higher-paying job. Nowdays, I'd be happy to take less if it meant doing farm work.
 
Well that would be about $20 more than I got 35 years ago. But then you figure in the 2 home cooked meals and a couple cold Pfeiffer’s it was all worth it to pile hay, pick rocks, or milk cows somewhere other than your same old farm.
 
The ranch I rent from. At one time was offering $15.00 an hour. Free apartment. Truck to drive.No bills unless you went over your limit. Could not find help.
 
(quoted from post at 17:23:09 10/19/20) Local farmer posted an ad on CL today he wants a good hard working farm hand going to pay $8 to $10 hour.I'm sure he'll be complaining 'no one wants to work anymore'. Some local fast food places pay $12+
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He might get felons that nobody else will knowingly hire.
Or day labor jailbirds on work release privledges.
Addicts, child molesters, etc.

And drunks that might work a day, get paid, go on a bender and not show up again until the money has been drunk.
 
That isn't going to cut it,he's got remember this 2020, It's $22.00 for experience help around here,Except for the Growers that get the help out of South Africa,New Zeeland, that thru some learning program the college's, there good workers and know what's going on!
 
(quoted from post at 13:51:25 10/19/20) Where would that be? I been working since 1968 and I have never seen a job that paid more than twelve dollars an hour. I am either in the wrong place or in the wrong job category.
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Retired farmer, you are being taken advantage of unless you are pulling the collective leg here. If you are serious, everyone where you work is getting paid more, and you are probably in the lowest 5% of pay of workers in the US.
 
Minimum wage here in NY is above 11 dollars per hour currently. Goes up again Jan 1 2020. Fewer and fewer people working 40 hours per week.
 
No, I am not pulling anybody's leg, when I hired on it was supposed to be temporary summer help, it just turned into full
time. Guy gives all his money to his three worthless adult kids that keep sprouting more kids. None of them have decent paying
jobs and just want to live off mommy and daddy and mommy and daddy let them. I don't have any place to go or be so I have just
stayed here.
 
(quoted from post at 17:46:28 10/19/20) Wish I was making ten dollars an hour, I would be very happy. Haven't had a raise since I started this job twenty years ago for minimum wage at the time.
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Wait....
You lost 1.5 million in a divorce.....
You have a motorhome
Your in Colorado
Where minimum wage was $10+ in 2018 and is now $12 in 2020.

And you did all of the above on less than $10 an hour?
 
Sure, as long as that includes a house, truck, side of beef, and health insurance.

As Fastfarmall noted below, here in ND, $20-30/hr for good help. Poor help will quickly cost you more than that in what they tear up.
 
I'm not talking about 2018, I am talking about 2000. Money was tied up in a large profitable ranch. Motorhome is a 1984. Maybe
I did forget to add that I did have a real job before I got into farming.
 
I think it depends on what part of the country you're in. It would be reasonable here. Unskilled day wages are $75 with skilled being $100. Cash makes a big difference not to mention the fact that most of these guys don't like inside work.

My son in law is a cheapskate. He pays $7:50 for yard work help.
 
This is a pretty high wage scale area,100 miles south of DC. Friend owns a landscape business can't keep help at $20 hr mostly riding a Zero turn mower and spreading some mulch.
 
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