<p>Earlier we talked about people who were losing their jobs…</p>
<p>Now I am asking…what is the pay of certain jobs…</p>
<p>like a waiter at California Pizza Kitchen or Cheesecake Factory?</p>
<p>or a tech support person at BestBuy…</p>
<p>or a legal secretary at a 10 person law firm…</p>
<p>or anything else that fits your fancy…</p>
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Depends on the location and the 10 person firm! In NYC, generally 50-85,000 in a good, but nameless firm. If the legal secretary is working for someone with a big name (like a top matrimonial or criminal defense lawyer), $85,000 to $150,000, depending.</p>
<p>Waitress at very busy ice cream shop (during the summer) in my area makes around $100-130 per day (tips).</p>
<p>Waiter at super-popular restaurant in Times Square makes $700 per day (tips again) on weekends and holidays. BUt he works like a dog for it.</p>
<p>When I was waiting tables and bartending in my twenties, we made a fortune. I was able to put myself through school and buy my first condo (cash) with that money, and I only worked nights, and only five. </p>
<p>Of course, school was way less expensive back then and it was a white table cloth place. Still… The managers, our bosses, made way less than we did.</p>
<p>Don’t know if that is still the case.</p>
<p>ds,</p>
<p>You should try it out in the French Laundry :)</p>
<p>“Waiter at super-popular restaurant in Times Square makes $700 per day (tips again) on weekends and holidays. BUt he works like a dog for it.”</p>
<p>wow…that’s good…I think you can live on that in NY…</p>
<p>I wonder what it is like to wait tables these days too…i wonder if people can do what you did poetgrl…maybe they can if they are in the same situation as the person zoosermom mentioned.</p>
<p>I am not going to work at the french laundry. They would never want me. My only restaurant job…I did not have quite the success that poetgrl had…I got fired…and deservedly so…</p>
<p>I waitressed at a downtown Howard Johnson’s where I went to college in the MidWest in early 80s. Base pay was under $3/hour, but I used to boost that to $10+/hour with tips on good nights, $7ish for bad nights. 3 nights/week covered my living expenses, books and some tuition.</p>
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This is my friend’s son. He works at a chain restaurant in Times Square and attends NYU. He does not work every day and, since he has been there for two years, he does not work lunch shifts. He works dinner, weekends and night times (big bar tabs). He works very, very hard, juggles many tables at a time and didn’t make that money until he got the weekend/night shifts, and some of those tips go back to bus people, so my guesstimate is that he generally brings home around $1800 per week during the busy seasons. He rakes in the dough between Thanksgiving and New Years, and makes not much of anything in the depth of the winter.</p>
<p>that’s still good zoosermom…</p>
<p>so …extrapolating from that…i am guessing…a waitress might make 40000 to 60000 a year at a Cheesecake Factory…</p>
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Oh, it’s great. I just didn’t want to leave the impression that he was making $140,000 because that’s not the case at all. He is grateful. He goes to school, auditions and can eat regularly. What more does any young man want? Oh, and he meets a lot of young ladies.</p>
<p>:)…a man gets to meet young ladies and he can almost pay for NYU …what more can a guy want…</p>
<p>Come to think of it, we should all be so lucky, right? Hmm. Nah. I don’t really like people so I’m not waitress material and am not young and attractive, so it’s a good thing I’m not looking to meet young men.</p>
<p>I know folks who have worked banquets at nice hotels. They got pretty good tips as well (it’s included in the price of the event). It was HARD, HEAVY work and you had to know someone to get it. I never learned exactly how much they actually earned. Wages of legal secretaries & other legal help vary greatly–partly depending on how much the attorney/firm brings in. Many here bring in about $40-50K, similar to our civil service employees. I’m sure there are others who make more.</p>
<p>I know some attorneys who have to moonlight to help pay their loans off, as well as having a full-time day job as an attorney–prosecutor or public defender. Public defenders were getting about $52K starting salaries according to a recent article; believe prosecutors were getting slightly more.</p>
<p>I don’t believe tech support folks at Best Buy get much more than minimal wages. Heard it from a friend whose S was working there & eventually quit.</p>
<p>Most random thread in a while. As has been stated “it varies”. State laws regarding employment vary so much. For example in NC waitstaff earn $3. and change per hour with the “tips” making up the difference between that and minimum wage. In California, waitstaff must earn minimum wage. In CA overtime must be paid for any hour after eight in any one day. In other states, overtime doesn’t kick in until you reach over 40 hours in one week. Legally in CA tips are supposed to be paid in your paycheck and reported as income. Some restaurants follow that policy, some don’t. In some restaurants waitstaff share or pool tips with busboys, door staff, bartenders and other waitstaff. Some do not.
Bestbuy, from what I know pays minimum wage (again, depends on the state what that is). Legal services vary like crazy. One of my children is a “client intake” person for a law firm. Earns around $15. per hour plus overtime when he wants to work it. Tough job…makes about 140 phone calls a day. As has been mentioned, legal secretaries can earn much bigger figures.
I live in an affluent area where people want to live here. I’ve been looking around at new full time work. Positions in Admin, HR, etc. which clearly state must have Quickbooks, admin, HR experience and where they are looking for a high degree (think over ten years) of experience are paying anywhere from 12 to 24 dollars an hour. (It is appalling to me how many of them list a laundry list of umpteen requirements and then state pay at $14. per hour. No thank you for me on that one.</p>
<p>A tech person from bestbuy makes minimum pay?</p>
<p>Ten years of experience and a person makes 14 an hour…</p>
<p>Scary…
Zoosermom…i have been told that when middle aged and older people when they dream of themselves…see themselves as thirty years old. That is my age when
I dream of myself.</p>
<p>You once wrote that you were hot when you were younger. When I think of you…I always visualize you as being 30 and hot.</p>
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God bless you, my friend! I did some shopping recently and got a new hair style and my boss said I look like “a babe” again. of course, he’s full of it, but I can pretend.</p>
<p>I’m just telling the truth.</p>
<p>My d. started her part-time accounting job today. $30 an hour; she sets her own hours, and they will take as many hours as she would like to put in. It’s within walking distance of her apartment. While she is hired by the company, her “boss” is actually an outside contractor, who has been doing this for 15 years (told her that it was more “flexible” and that she - the boss - can take a vacation anytime she likes, and makes more money his way.) Apparently, says the boss, she can also bill for the hours she studies for her CPA. Nice racket, if you ask me.</p>
<p>But I worked my way through high school and college as a hotel waiter, and made more money per week then than I did 10 years later with two graduate degrees. But I worked HARD.</p>
<p>Mini…good luck to your daughter…your daughter has a nice gig going.</p>