05-18-2016, 12:02 PM
(05-18-2016, 11:14 AM)Benton Wrote: My industry is pretty well freaking out across the board. Unless you're in DC or New York, the majority of people in journalism make under $40,000 and are salaried, or they make around that and overtime gets patrolled pretty hard. That number goes down a lot the smaller the paper. And there have been a lot of layoffs over the last decade trying to keep salaries down.
Honestly, Virginia is going to be screwed with regards to their public employees. Granted, I believe I'm the only supervisor in my office making less than the floor (the others have over ten years in and the system for promotions/raises here doesn't allow more than a 10% increase even if being hired for a completely different job, don't get me started) but only one person that isn't a supervisor makes more than that and all of us put in more than 40 a week. And that's not uncommon. Plus this would mean they would force us to keep track of the hours to make sure we don't exceed, which would be a pain.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR