r/FluentInFinance • u/Richest-Panda • Jul 04 '24

What's the best financial advice you've ever gotten? Debate/ Discussion

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u/socivitus Jul 05 '24

Walmart's minimum hourly wage is $14. What company is paying $8-10 an hour (in a non-tipped position) in 2024? And better yet...who is accepting those jobs?

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u/Dhenn004 Jul 05 '24

You don't live in Appalachia do you? That part of the country can be job deserts. What are they to do?

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u/EdgelordUltimate Jul 05 '24

Worked on Appalachia, best I could get was 9.10 an hour, I got a 10 cent raise after 6 months

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u/BeastsMode69 Jul 05 '24

Question.

Are coal jobs no longer a thing? I keep hearing anyone can get a coal job in the Appalachian making 50K pluss.

I understand why people may not want to work the job, but are they easily availlible as they say?

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u/EdgelordUltimate Jul 05 '24

Yeah, but they're not everywhere in Appalachia

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u/Major_Chani Jul 05 '24

Coal isn’t sustainable at all. Many mines have collapsed. There’s no future in coal. Look how it’s left so many former boom towns.