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posted by martyb on Tuesday June 17 2014, @08:08AM   Printer-friendly
from the take-it-from-the-top dept.

Parkland Health & Hospital System in Dallas[1] will raise its own minimum wage to $10.25 an hour next month...
The wage increase will cost the hospital about $350,000 a year. The expense will be covered with money from the upcoming quarter's bonus pool for the hospital's 60 vice presidents and top executives.

After this, every worker employed by Dallas County will make at least $10.25 an hour (still not a living wage by many measures).
Note also that this will barely put a dent in that pool, expected to be at least $3M for the year.

[1] People who have memories of November 22, 1963 will remember that as a historic location

 
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  • (Score: 2) by monster on Wednesday June 18 2014, @08:15AM

    by monster (1260) on Wednesday June 18 2014, @08:15AM (#56829) Journal

    It's not an increase by $10.25, it's an increase to $10.25. As told in TFA, their previous minimum salary was $8.78/hour, so an increment by $1.47.

    We are not told how many hours per month their workers do, but if we assume about 340 workdays it would give around 700 work-hours per day, or nearly 90 people with a 8 hour workday. Compared to that number, 60 vice presidents and top executives is a lot!

    Of course, we don't know what percentage of their workers do more than the minimum and are not affected by the raise, which would indeed change the perception about their relative numbers.

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