When I moved to San Diego, my Texas friends kept telling me about how expensive it is to live here. Yet McDonald’s was selling Quarter Pounders with Cheese for $1.99 in San Diego, the identical price that it was back in College Station, Texas.

I do think it’s more expensive to live here, but I make ten times more money than I was making in Texas. Salaries are much higher than in my native state.

San Francisco is a much more progressive city than San Diego. They pretty much lead the way into the future and then, years and sometimes decades later, the rest of California follows, pretending to catch up, even though by that time San Francisco has moved on.

I lived and worked in the SF Bay Area in 1994-1995.

In California, eh? Sounds like you should head to San Francisco….$10.24, I believe. Haha, I don’t know if it is true, but I was told by a friend that San Francisco is the only city that Subway doesn’t sell $5 Foot Longs; it just cost too much to pay their employees…

Inflation! lol

I didn’t think $1.95 an hour in 1973 was much, and to think that minimum wage here in California is now something like $7.50 or so. Seems like inflation has not kept up with minimum wages.

Gosh, I find that hard to believe… A co-worker of mine said his first job paid $1.25. Oddly enough, part of the research I went through said that in the late 60’s, the dollar was worth so much then, that minimum wage then was almost $11.00 an hour at our current dollar value.

My first job as a freshman at Texas A&M University was as a busboy at IHOP. It paid minimum wage which, at the time, was $1.95 an hour.

Florida, as do other states, has its own minimum wage law. And our minimum wage law has regular *automatic* increases. Currently, the Florida minimum is $7.67. And this is a very Republican state. UNFORTUNATELY!