This really depends on the jurisdiction and their corresponding minimum wage laws.
Without knowing tax deductions, holiday pay, vacation time, etc. and assuming full time hours (40 hours per week for 52 weeks in a year) you would probably make in the range of $15 600 ($7.25/hr) to $20 800 ($10/hr) a year,
Part time workers would earn less.
In Illinois it would come out to be $16,120 a year, working 40 hours a week every week, with no overtime or bonuses. So it's not terribly realistic, usually there's some overtime in there.
minimum wage
In the US, migrant workers typically earn only minimum wage at best if they are here legally. Illegal aliens frequently earn less than that.
Minimum wage laws affect employees who earn the minimum wage as well as business who pay the minimum wage to its employees. Increasing the minimum wage improves the quality of life for those who earn at or near the minimum wage, however, it can cause businesses to hire less employees or reduce staffing levels. That leads to higher unemployment for unskilled workers, who are the people that generally earn minimum wage. Those who earn minimum wage are probably most directly impacted by minimum wage laws. The laws also change the behavior of businesses by affecting staffing levels or passing cost increases on to their customers.
minimum wage after tax!
minimum wage
This website has a lot of useful information on minimum wage in the US. http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2008.htm
Minimum wage.
Minimum wage
$6.67
According to the department of labor the current Population Survey estimates 75.3 million workers are hourly wage earners in 2008. Among those 286,000 earned exactly the minimum wage and 1.9 million earned below the minimum. That makes for a total of 2.2 million workers who earn at or below the minimum--and that's 3% of the people who work as hourly employees.Of those who make less than minimum wage, services workers made up the largest group. 9% of those who made less than minimum wage work in the service industry. And leisure and hospitality was the industry category with the largest number of below minimum wage workers at 14%.
Minimum Wage. The shoes and jewelry department pay a minimum wage base, plus commission.
They make minimum wage.