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If you lived in the US, your numbers (and your memory) are absolutely incorrect.
Editing to add info:
Assuming the previous commenter is actually 40 years old and lived in the US, the minimum wage would have either been $4.75 or $5.15 when they were 14 (not $3.25)...
In fact, minimum wage in the US has never been $3.25.
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/minimum-wage/history/chart
State minimums can be different for certain jobs, and certain jobs are exempt from minimum wage and have a lower set wage. Tipped workers are the ones everyone knows about, but farm workers and others are also exempt.
That in no way contradicts anything I said.
The person I was replying to never said they were exempt from minimum wage... They said what they misremembered the minimum wage to have been.
My point is they may have been remembering the minimum as it was relevant to the work they did at the time, not necessarily the federal minimum.
It is illegal for a company in any state to pay lower than federal minimum wage regardless whether or not the state's minimum wage is set lower.
Full stop.
Jobs that are considered exempt from federal minimum wage can still have a different set state exempt minimum wage that is higher than the mandated exempt federal wage.
For example, say the exempt wage is $2.75, a state can mandate $3.00 instead.
Yes. Which again is completely irrelevant to the discussion.
Thanks.
Not sure who shit in your Cheerios but it sounds like they had reason for it.
Go back to Reddit if this is your idea of a good way to behave online.
I understand this to be true as well.