So the next time you wonder if fire rated glass is expensive, know that there are ways of specifying fire and safety rated products for 20 and 45 minute applications that wonât blow your budget.
By either of these standards, a minimum wage position in Pennsylvania accounts for only a fraction of familiesâ basic living expenses. A full-time employee making $7.25 per hour earns just $15,000 per year.
On $8.38 an hour, macaroni and cheese would have to do for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner. It's a grim scenario but not an unreal one. For $8.38 an hour is currently the official minimum wage in New Jersey, one of the highest cost states in the nation. Yes, New Jersey just increased its minimum wage through a Constitutional amendment in 2013. We were ahead of the curve. But we were not sufficiently ambitious.