The difference between minimum wage jobs and salary jobs

There is a reason people say minimum wage jobs should not be a career job...

Minimum wage is unpredictable. A boss can cut your hours however they want. My mom works minimum wage and its horrible what they do. Its amazing how legal it is to do that.

Its problematic when for years you get paid for 40 hours a week...then your boss cuts you down to where you would be lucky to pull 30 hours a week.

Minimum wage is unpredictable because your pay can change each time. Its hard to have things that you have to pay bills on when you don't know if you are going to get enough pay to cover it this time around.

With salary pay though, usually the pay stays the same on a similar schedule per month. Salary is definitely a higher pay than minimum.

But minimum wage does usually have one advantage over salary. At least with minimum your job ends when you clock out.

With salary pay 9 out of 10 your job never ends when you are done for the day. A nurse or doctor can always be called in. A teacher has to grade work, deal with lesson plans and etc. And so on...

There is a reason they get salary pay...because if they got paid minimum wage for a job that never truly ends, they may just actually get paid more.

But salary does have the benefit of not getting docked for one days absent unlike with minimum wage where one day of no work can make all the difference in your pay.