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How much would you expect to make per hour picking fruit, veggies? Please name your hourly wage...

Scucca

Surely you should be asking for a piece-work rate? Its such rates that will be a problem for the locals. First, although overall compensation is linked to productivity, the employer can use them to increase underpayment. Second, there is no insurance for 'bad luck' (e.g. weather conditions that reduce output). Given this second factor, I'd expect compensation for my risk aversity. Taking into account our minimum wage is something like £10.88 an hour, I'd need to make something above that

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Edify_Always_In_All_Ways

Nine or ten dollars an hour? Seriously, the job requires no skills and, although conditions are tough, at least I'm not at risk for injury.

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Scucca

I earned something like that when I was a kid in the orchards (in real terms though, given I'm getting old and falling to bits now). I wasn't risk averse then though.

There would be no reason for me to work piece work, given the risk of being unlucky and earning less, unless I can expect compensation above the minimum wage.

DeeJayH

actually that is like $21.76/hr using current pound/dollar conversions ~ 2:1

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Scucca

Actually it was a lowly typing error. My figure should be in your dollar Monopoly Money, given the minimum wage here is £5.52

Rogue

Backing in to answering your question, the average American household spends about $1.00 a day on fresh fruits and vegetables. Of that $1.00 a whopping 6-8% represents labor. Do the math. The farmer makes his profit, but most of the price of produce is tied up in distribution and the middleman costs. Without illegal Mexican poverty reject scabs to step in and pick the crops, farmers are going to have to redevelop the sources of labor they had before this 19th century workforce was allowed to decend on America. If the farmers had to increase the wages they pay for legal labor to say 12% of the price of produce, that would mean that the average household pays maybe $1.04 a day for their fresh fruits and vegetables.

To save that .04 a day, we're supposed to let in illegal labor and their families, which has overwhelmed our ERs, bankrupted our hospitals, overcrowded and is ruining our school, filled our prisons with criminal illegals, and not to mention, brought in all of those, future Democrat voters if amnestied, illegals, etc.

new coup for you

I'd do it for 7

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And why does your tone suggest that you do not care about children?

mikhail

$12-15% an hour

Its not a well skilled job but there seems to be a low supply of non illegals willing to work for the real low wages.

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Let's just say that whatever I would expect, they wouldn't pay me.

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