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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (259253)	7/8/2010 11:20:53 AM
From: neolib	Respond to of 306849

at below market wages - there isn't enough. and never will be - that's what "below market wages" means. Oregon has one of the highest minimum wages in the nation (8.40) but most farm labor around here makes more than that. I'd guess 9-10/hr is typical for the lowest end manual labor. $10-12 for anything with a hint of more complexity (tractor drivers for example). Although the wages are low, many of them make OK money for the year, because they get in well over 2K hours/year. Of course they work all those hours as well often in cold/rain, or cooking hot sun. The guys I employ (only part time) typically put in 10 hour days, 6 days a week. Other jobs they get can put in 12-16 hours/day and 7 days a week. They will have some dead time as well, often in the late fall/early winter, or sometimes in early spring. But they do make a living. Their kids of course will get educated, and choose a different living, which will have a cascade effect on employment of the kids of those currently employing their parents.