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Economy

Warpy

(113,131 posts)

2. I'm not surprised, AMERICA NEEDS A RAISE

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Aug 26, 2024, 06:45 PM

Aug 2024

That salary was probably OK back in the 80s but inflation has continued on since then and wages have generally gone nowhere, the rises in the minimum wage timid and inadequate.

I guess the airline thinks she's being paid in glamor.

Ha.

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