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"Some Disney employees who made more than the minimum did not like the contract terms. They get raises of 50 cents per hour each year and considered that a minimal pay boost." Oh, they get $.50 more? Lets celebrate by being able to buy two whole bottles of water at WDW with those extra daily...

Here's some insight into that...top level attractions CMs earn around $13.57 per hour. http://themeparkuniversity.com/disney/depth-look-walt-disney-world-employee-wages/ If you've dedicated 40 years of your life to the company, you can earn an extra $.50 an hour. "Now, an attractions employee...

Why do we have to call these positions entry level positions? Does this mean a Hygienist who has few career growth options is entry level? No. Does it mean that all guest facing CM positions are entry level? No. Are some? Probably. Do people in all positions, even those who have no career...

Yep.

Crazy talk! Captain America said Disney promotes people who are motivated and show they aren't lazy! ;)

If companies and people would only self regulate, we wouldn't have to worry with pesky government interference. They're really good at chasing the wrong problems and making it worse. When will we get the memo that they're only doing it because we won't?

We're in agreement on that. Still, I expect it to happen.

We might see this in our lifetime. Should it be illegal, no. Will it legislated because companies are cutting hours to avoid regulation, yeah probably.

Many people have been forced to take a sometimes significant reduction in pay or leave their company with nothing. If the minimum wage was removed, you can guarantee that some companies paying at or close to minimum wage would start trying to find ways to demote or reduce their employees pay to...

The implication was this: In a perfect world, we wouldn't need legislation for companies to take care of their employees as every business / employee relationship would be equally mutually beneficial. Should companies be legally allowed to pay their employees $1 per hour? In a perfect world...

Promotion is generally but not always mutually beneficial. Sometimes it's to the benefit of the company promoting, sometimes it's for the benefit of the manager's buddy, and sometimes it's for the benefit of the employee because if that employee leaves it harms the company. It's certainly not...

This has been a good conversation, I've enjoyed it. Sadly I have to get off the ferry here, at least for a while. Duty calls. :)

I don't disagree with you, not even a little. Mandating a wage did not fix the root cause, otherwise we wouldn't still be talking about this in 2015.

How do you live while you are there? It's very relevant. The people who stay at the bottom are people who can't or won't do an honest amount of work? How sad that you believe that. Some, yes. All? No way. Some blame falls squarely on the corporations who refuse to promote. Until they...

Desired and required are two very different things. There's no desire to legislate wages, however it's unfortunately required since many businesses will not self regulate. FDR only legislated because he had to.

I don't think any reasonable person wants wages legislated.

There will always be bad people. Inflation has for years far surpassed wage increases. You've already deflated your own comment here. :) People expecting basic income to follow inflation aren't begging. It's demeaning to imply that they are. I didn't say they should have no struggle at...

You realize that raising wages could reduce or possibly eliminate the "bad part of town" problem. In that case, there should be no cast members and the parks should fail. As you know, "A and B" should never be an option. We've all been there, we've all been poor living in a dump and trying...

Yes, some of their income does come back but they have to live without it for a year first.

Were you in Orlando? I imagine it's possible to live on less in other places, but this thread is about CMs who live in and around Orlando. The cost of living has changed significantly in the last 5 years as well. I don't think you'll find a studio anywhere around here that's not in a "bad...