McBudget Smells Worse Than a Filet-O-Fish
$290 per week. That's what a 40 hour per week minimum wage worker earns. Before taxes. That's $15,080 per year, provided the worker didn't miss a day of work due to illness or perhaps a vacation. $15,080. Before taxes. Yet for some reason, McDonald's decided it could "help" its employees by showing that with proper budgeting, yes, you can live on a minimum wage if you just plan appropriately. Only they pretty much proved just the opposite . Here are some of the main criticisms of it: It assumes the worker is working two jobs. It surmises that health insurance costs $20 a month. It doesn’t include child care, groceries, clothing or gas for the worker’s car. Also, another, possibly earlier, version of the budget ( seen here ) proposed that heating would cost $0 a month. And there you have it. By the second line of their sample budget , they've already assumed you are working TWO minimum wage jobs. Or about 70 hours per week; 10 hours a ...