Interesting info on pay in The Villages
 

And Wheeling , WV is number 4... Fracking jobs are abundant in the Ohio Valley..

Certainly the wages quoted are NOT for the people who service you... such as the restaurant help, recreation staff, and those that are employed by retail, etc.

I think that's way off.

If you look in the classified ads in our Daily Sun, there's nothing more than a dollar over minimum wage.

I think this from the report sums it up:

"Seasonal factors appear to play a major role in determining aggregate wages in the area. Area wages are typically far higher in the fourth quarter of the year, potentially because of retirees spending the winter months in The Villages and the area hosting bigger events while they are in town. In the first three quarters of 2013, average weekly wages were below $680. In the fourth quarter, however, the average wage was $870 per week."

Not a meaningful local area statistic, but interesting how money and income move around the country. Suspect areas of AZ and South Texas have similar trends throughout the year.

I'm sure my wife will be pleased to hear this since she took a 45% pay cut when we had to come here for doing the exact same work. At least now she will know that her measly pay check is only in her mind.

Of course it's not. It's the AVERAGE weekly wage. People who do menial work earn minimum wage or just above.

But I do think that you may be wrong about servers in restaurants. By my casual observations I'd say that they do pretty well.

On the other hand, I know that Publix starts their employees at $10.00 per hour and Aldi actually pays higher than that. I'd say that's pretty good for entry level jobs.

The cost of living and the cost of housing is so much lower here than say in Manhattan or San Francisco. I find pride that Sumter county has the lowest unemployment in the whole state at 5.03 Per Cent.

And why shouldn't it? The vast majority of the population of Sumter County is RETIRED!

Unemployment rates don't include people no longer in the work force.

I WAS right. Here is the proof. Retired people are not considered to be in the labor force.

How the Government Measures Unemployment

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.: Florida unemployment rate dips slightly in June - Business Wires - MiamiHerald.com


Walton county in Florida's panhandle had the lowest unemployment rate in June 2014 at 3.4%. Read all about it in the Miami Herald.

There's a lot of employees working part time without benefits of course, for minimum wage. All in the name of the all mighty profit.

And a lot of these employees are being subsidized by the taxpayers since many of them qualify for food stamps, Medicaid and other government programs, while improving the employer's bottom line.

Aren;t businesses in business to make a profit. You say this like making a profit is a bad thing.

Would you rather have fewer people working full time? And where does this idea that employers are somehow responsible for an employees healthcare come from? I know that a lot of companies have provided health insurance over the years, but is that really their responsibility?

Companies need profits. Even non-profit entities need more revenue than expense to expand (think hospitals). Healthcare and the legacy costs hamper pofitability on one hand and on the other employees are tethered to a large degree to a company because of the provided healthcare. We need to join the rest of the industrialized world and provide true universal health coverage. I think we are heading there; the sooner the better.