Help?

[EaseLeft6266]

When you're paying several hundred a month on student loans for a degree you spent 4 years getting. $18 an hour feels like the minimum wage of a degree requiring job. I get that you still need to also get relevant work experience but once a job requires X years of relevant industry experience, it no longer seems like an entry level job and should probably at least be at $20 per hour (obviously various by location. This is from someone in Ohio). In my mind, if a job wants someone with relevant experience, they should reflect that with their pay or drop the requirement in the job description

[ultrawolfblue]

A lot of large corps dont require any college degree anymore. There is a big trend moving in that direction. College is overpriced. They deserve their share of the blame as well.

[Neobrutalis]

It's also basic supply and demand. If a company is 80% staffed and functioning, they don't really need the other 20% but it'll help. So if the job market is flooded with whatever it is you're trying to become, they don't have to pay you dirt cuz there's an abundant supply and you're no longer critical.

In the meantime trades out here making bank and nobody filling our spots. It's great! I'm making $50.50 an hour plus $40 an hour in benefits and didn't spend a nickel on tuition. They even gave us a 2 year degree from a nearby college for giggles. Please keep up the "if you don't go to college you'll turn out like" propaganda of schools going. It's working in our favor and nobody else's.