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I'm a PM now and I've always made significantly more than 15 an hour.
I just don't think 15 dollars an hour is a lot of money. Minimum wage has not been raised to deal with inflation over the years.
I was actually paid significantly less than all the other PMs. Like 2 to 3 times less. They paid me shit because I was fresh out of school and they knew they could get away with it.
$15/hr isn't a lot, but it's still enough to get a small apartment, pay your bills, and have a small amount of spending money left over. I was able to manage this in NYC, which is probably the most expensive city in the US. I just think that's a bit too much capital for unskilled labor and that cost is largely going to be passed onto the consumer. I personally don't think it's fair for me, as a consumer, to pay to support that artificially high standard of living.