#wage rate

[thelocalreport8]

Wage rate will increase under MNREGA in MP, state government sent letter to the Center

Bhopal. Chief Minister Dr. Mohan Yadav on Tuesday reviewed the work of the Panchayat and Rural Development Department in the ministry. On this occasion, he said that efforts will be made to increase wage rates in the state under MNREGA. At present the wage rate of Madhya Pradesh is Rs 221, a letter has been sent to the Central Government to increase it. Chief Secretary Veera Rana, Additional…

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#center #government #increase #letter #MNREGA #MP #rate #sent letter #state #State Government #state government sent letter to the Center #wage #Wage rate #Wage rate will increase under MNREGA in MP

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“PROPOSED INCREASE IN WAGES PROTESTED,” Montreal Star. November 10, 1931. Page 3. --- Board of Trade Objects to Council's Plan ---- The Council of the Montreal Board of Trade has considered the recommendation of the special committee of the City Council that the hour wage rate for laborers employed by the city, or on city contracts, should be increased from 40 cents to 50 cents and has unanimously adopted the following resolution: Whereas the Council feels that in a time like this the vital question is to afford employment to as many as possible of the citizens who, though anxious to support themselves and their families, are for the present deprived of the opportunity of doing so by circumstances incidental to the trying times now prevalent, and,

Whereas, the increasing of the hour wage rate would reduce the number of persons who could be given employment with the funds. available, and, Whereas the present rate is higher than the prevailing rate of wages paid by employers of labor,

Therefore resolved, That the proposal to increase the hour wage rate is in the opinion of this Board unwise and unjustifiable, and that representations should be made to the City of Montreal that the proposal should be abandoned, and that a copy of this resolution be sent to the Mayor of Montreal and to the chairman of the Executive Committee of the City Council.

#montreal #city council #municipal workers #municipal politics #municipal government #wage rate #wage increase #wage demand #austerity politics #great depression in canada #pressures of the great depression

[pbaoddstoday]

#pba #nba championship #betting #philipines #basketball #wage rate #live #bet #filipino #players

[pen2print]

Stagflation: a serious economic issue

Photo by Reynaldo #brigworkz Brigantty on Pexels.com Stagflation is a situation wherein there persists both inflation(consistent rise in the prices of all the goods and services available in a country) as well as stagnation(lack of any economic development). Since 1970, there have been paradoxical developments in most developed nations of the world. There has been a considerable fall in the…

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#causes #control #industry #price rise #Stagflation #unemployment #wage rate

[durnesque-esque]

Echoing other's reminders that while the basic rates might sound high, VERY few people are booked consistently week after week. More often an actor might book a week of work every month. Or might book a couple of months for one project, but then not book another project for weeks or months more. So rates are higher that a standard 9-5, because they are not working every day or every week.

Plus, just as a note: in LA, one would need to make around $45-50 an hour at a standard 9-5 to afford a single bed apartment. Most of us live in shared housing because our hourly rates aren't high enough either. 🙃

#sag aftra strike #basic rates #sag rates #wages #cost of living

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

#us politics #republicans #conservatives #gop #congressional salaries #minimum wage #wages #raise the minimum wage #wage gap #intergenerational wealth #tax rate #hourly wages #capital gains #capital gains tax #income #productivity vs. pay #productivity #economic policy institute #Piketty/Saez data #NBER #Federal Reserve Distributional Accounts #graphs #statistics

[starflungwaddledee]

Do you take commissions? If so, do you have a commission sheet? I’m sorry if this is an annoying ask I just really love your work lol

not annoying at all! i really really appreciate this a lot, thank you!

i have done commissions in the past on other platforms, but for now i am not taking them here. i'm not saying that i never will, because sometimes life is.. you know. Like That™️. but for now i'm steering clear of it to try and keep my passion up! 👍

#i also frankly think- and i don't say this to be rude- but i think that most folks in fandom would think my work is overpriced #because i charge somewhat more professional rates. still not a living wage. still not what you could get as a non-freelancer #(deleted a lot of rambling about prices here but if anyone does want to hear it i can go into it sometime) #kirby characters are generally far more simplistic so it would be a whole different pricing bracket #but i think expectations in fandom seem different to an original content community where people are doing this for a living #the one person i've commissioned in fandom i was so shocked at the rate i paid like... 500% what they asked me. #(that is not hyperbole. i 'tipped' 400% and it still felt like the bare minimum. you *must* tip undercharging artists.) #anyway. i have a lot of thoughts about monetising my art but at the moment this is still a no. i'm sorry! #i do really genuinely appreciate it though! if i ever open them i'll be sure to post here about it! #i'd also like to do art trades a little more regularly in the future (not rn) ; so there's that too? but we'll see. again i'll post about i #starflungs personal tag

[ardri-na-bpiteog]

it's another example of how backwards the entire housing system is that the people who can actually afford the most energy efficient homes are the ones who least "need" them.

they can better afford the high energy bills of a lower rated house, while people already on lower incomes are further stretched because they can only afford an older house with higher energy bills.

as the saying goes after all, it's expensive to be poor.

#to get an A rated house or even apartment anywhere in county dublin #you need at least half a million euro #as a first-time-buyer that means you need to have a deposit on hand of 50 000 and an income of at least 112 500 a year #or buy a house out in leitrim or something and spend half your life commuting because you're just a little wage slave anyway #so why should you get to have free time?

[mysticorset]

TOTK Great Fairy Enhancements Tracker

I made a workbook in Google Sheets that will tell you in an intuitive format exactly what materials you need for your current set of gear. It's even mobile-friendly! Each tab should fit width-wise on a smartphone screen so that it's easier to quickly refer to it while you play without needing to scroll side-to-side or open it on a proper computer.

You'll want to make a copy of this file so that you can track your own gear:

Feel free to share it around, and also do let me know if you come across a bug or error!

A brief tour of the tabs below the cut:

The Input/Tracker Tab

Check off the far right of each row to indicate you own the piece, and then check the 4 boxes to the left to indicate how many stars of upgrade you've completed for that piece.

Bonus: Each column is filterable, so you can choose if you want to hide the pieces you've completed or the ones you aren't working on, or whatever.

The Output/Materials Tabs

There is one tab that will list out the materials you need for your next enhancement/star for each piece of armor, and then two more that will give you a total of how many of each material you need across all of your in-progress enhancements.

I split monster parts into its own tab because the in-game sorting for monster parts is by the function of the part (all eyeballs are together, then all wings, then "sharp" parts, "crushing" parts, etc). It seemed much more intuitive for this kind of a tool to instead organize them by the monster you're getting them from instead, so you can go, "Oh wow I need a lot of lizalfos talons, and horns from 3 different kinds. I better go genociding hunting where there are a lot of different lizalfos!"

#tears of the kingdom #totk #loz totk #I absolutely made it for myself and then spent twice as long optimizing it as playing the game for the last week #so someone else may as well get use out of it #too bad I don't have a patreon or something to get paid for the amount of work I put into it #if I got even minimum wage for the work put into it I'd have a sexy $300 right now #if I got the rate I charge clients for normalizing and analyzing data I'd have a much sexier $1500 #also very frustrated at Tumblr for not putting my screenshots into the rows and blocks I put them in so they didn't take up so much space

[thevastnessof]

HR position i applied to at a cool ski resort near my hometown (? Unclear if actually my hometown but close enough) got back and asked for a phone interview rahhhhh

#sky speaks #WE'LL SEE #we'll see #i think that could be sooo fun #and if they paid enough for me to live alone #they have a wage range and the upper end WOULD work for my budget #if they offered it at that rate i wouldn't really have a reason to say no #lower end wouldn't work so just depends

[thephooka]

Spent a bus ride yesterday reading a 1997 book by Gary Martin called The Art of Comic Book Inking that someone recced in the Cartoonist Co-Op server. I'm not the target audience for it (it's geared towards traditional inkers working in the print comics industry and is more for b&w comics imo) but it's an...interesting look into how the industry was back then. And by interesting, I mean bleak as fuck!

More below:

So I got curious and tried to find what the page rates for being an inker are like now, and had a look at this list of rates from Comic Book Resource, which are all self-reported by industry professionals.*

You'll notice 'inker' isn't even its own category here. The closest one is 'line artist' which is both pencils and inks, which for the sake of argument let's say is twice the amount of work as inking by itself. (It's not, pencils are harder, don't at me.) I took the average of rates from 2020-2022 for line artists and got $227/page, for both pencils and inks.

The very lowest rate of $100/pg in 1997 for JUST inking would be $190 today. If line artists do twice the work (again, an underestimate) by doing pencils too, that ought to translate to $380/page at the lowest end today. It doesn't somehow! Huh. Have a look through that rate list and you'll see rates even lower than $100/page in today's money (mostly from the usual suspects.)

Here's some more fun math:

Forget the $28k number above--he's including covers in this number, which pay differently. Say you do 22pgs/month at $100/page--that's $26,400 (1997)/$50,282 (today). Subtract a third for taxes** and your take-home amount would be $33,522 in today's money, which works out to a wage of $16/hr.***

At the high end of Martin's numbers, let's say 44 pages a month at $150/page for a total of $79,200, or $52,800 after taxes, and an hourly rate of $25/hr. Adjusted for inflation, that's $150,845 gross/$100,563 net/$48 hourly.

Average these numbers together, and the rates in today's money would be $67,042 net/$32 hourly.

Assuming line artists do twice the work, these numbers ought to be doubled, at $120k/yr or $64/hr.

But by the actual numbers we have, if a line artist works that same amount at the average rate of $227/page, that works out to $59,928 before taxes, $40,132 after, and an hourly wage of $19.

The kicker: the living wage in my metro area (same one Gary Martin lived in when he published this book, incidentally) is $21/hr, assuming no kids. Lol.

This is also assuming you can pencil AND ink at least 22 pages a month every month sustainably without destroying yourself, which is an EXTREMELY generous assumption. Also, no one gets health insurance working in comics, so take that into account with this shoulder-destroying pace.

I'm sure I'm mostly preaching to the choir here, and none of this information is really a surprise to me--oh comics is also a bad industry that doesn't page a living wage? shocker!--but it's interesting**** to actually be able to run the numbers on it to see how much, exactly, rates have stagnated. A lot, as it turns out!

Anyway, here's a little look into how comics pays, in case you're unfamiliar. It pays bad.

*this isn't even including companies like Webtoons and Tapas, who are fairly notorious at this point for underpaying and overworking creators. This is largely print publishing.

**the self-employment tax rate in the US is something like 15.1% and has been since at least 1990 but advice is usually to pay a third in quarterly taxes--easier to overpay and get it back at tax time than underpay and owe.

***based on 40hrs/wk, and I'm showing this number bc I think more people understand hourly wages than rates. I wouldn't include the amount for taxes in this bc if you're working an hourly wage you're probably not self-employed.

****LOUD SCREAMING

#artists and math DON'T mix he's right #I did my best tho #also afaik the bit about royalties is still true #possibly even more true #comics #comic industry #inking #inker #line artist #page rates #industry rates #living wage #late stage capitalism #also if for some reason you're going to whine at me about free markets please eat your own pants instead idc

[halfricanloveyou]

the nice thing about searching for jobs when there’s a shortage in your career field is…the desperation. it’s like…so many thirsty hoes in my inbox rn. they all want me to work for them.

i feel like i’m just so competent and amazing and ooooo all the hiring managers want me soooo bad cause i’m soooo good at working and my job…ahaha…it’s like, omg so you liked my resume?? you’re impressed with my skill set and experience? tell me MORE. go on…

ofc it’s offset by them spitting in my face by refusing to pay me a livable wage but i enjoy the groveling anyways lmao

#yeah it’s like…suck my dick harder ooooh #you won’t pay me a livable wage so i’m noot gonna work for you #but go ahead and grovel a bit for me!! #*insert snide ojou-san anime girl laugh here* #dumbass shit i said #job interview #the economy really is in shambles #like bitch…i got five dollars #i got bills to pay so i am NOT taking your $5 below the average hiring rate in my area #but please keep being so niceys to me i like that

[quodo-gaysex]

amptp: we cant pay writers waah waahh! business! *sniffles*

ao3 writers: can you beta read this 3 chapter fic for $70??

#like fr it isn't that hard to pay people for their efforts #i know writing and beta reading are different #but the point still stands- #if average folks can pay people reasonable rates for their services- then big ass companies can pay people living wages for their work!! #fucking amptp is a council of ferengi and they sit around rubbing eachothers ears and crying about profits. #support the wga #wga #wga solidarity #wga strong #wga strike #sag aftra #sag aftra solidarity #sag aftra strong #sag aftra strike #ferengi #star trek #st ds9 #st: ds9 #ds9 #the fic in question was a 6k inside job smut story #inside job netflix #inside job #inside job fanfic

[dittolicous]

haha wow. my job really. does not care.

its not just two weeks of only one day. its three. and then my hours only go up to 16.

really cool for a first warning. not even a write up.

i wish i was dead.

#ditto rambles #i final was makjng a livable wage #and now im down to nothing #i dont knoe how ill make rent at this rate #seeing as my fucking roommate hurt her leg at her job and hasn't neen able to work either

[gobbluthbutagirl]

actually so funny in retrospect how on the last wednesday of 2022 my job told me i had an “attitude problem” so in 2023 i quit that job, bought a pair of socks online that said “i ❤️ my attitude problem,” and listened to “bad attitude” by meat loaf so many times that it became my #3 most played song of the year

#the attitude problem was literally not even in the room with us if you know what i mean. #literal examples she gave were ‘you talk to your coworkers in the break room about stuff that happened on a shift they didn’t work’ #and ‘you ask me too many questions about the job and it makes me uncomfortable’ #this after i’d been working there 16 months. clocked in 5 minutes early every single day. #had called out sick 3 times ever at that point and all because i was actually sick. all times i was sick for like a week #and still only called out one day. #spent 6 months closing registers every night while on the schedule as the cleaner. #once spent over an hour of my one precious life cleaning the dirtiest and nastiest cart of all time #because we had so few because they kept getting stolen. #went above and beyond every single day and was consistently rated ‘exceeds expectations’ on performance reviews. #and they had given me a 15-cent performance raise after telling me i was the best cleaner of all time. #and then they raised the starting wage to $17.25 and my 15-cent raise was nullified so in the end it didn’t even matter. #and i was paying $1425 a month for a no oven shithole with thin walls and insane neighbors #AND THEY REALLY THOUGHT I’D RATHER BE PROMOTED THERE THAN JUST QUIT AND KEEP THE ATTITUDE!!!

[awkward-teabag]

Of course the moment my province announces increasing the minimum wage as it's tied to inflation, people pop out of the woodwork saying that this will mean prices will go up as if there hasn't been rampant inflation already.

I'm pretty sure it's not a future $0.65 raise which was just announced that's causing you to pay dozens/hundreds extra a month on food and rent alone for the past several months if not a year or more.

Stop gnashing your teeth at people already scraping by because you "went through the same and managed" and focus that anger at the people and systems that are actually causing it.

#haven't seen any 'but think of the mom and pop stores' yet but it's only a matter of time #pretty sure the bigger impact that would help independent stores out #would be to sort out the companies that hold commercial locations #and would rather have stores/buildings be empty than rent them at a reasonable rate #also it's not the same thing because have you seen the prices lately? #the official inflation number is far lower than what people actually experience #an extra $5 a day (assuming someone can find a job that's full time) #does next to nothing when companies are allowed to increase prices willy nilly just because they can #and once again if minimum wage was the driving factor of inflation there would have been no inflation whatsoever #it's almost like companies don't actually care about it and got addicted to covid profits #and got brazen about how they don't care about anything other than getting the c-suite/shareholders more money