{"id":9072,"date":"2014-09-01T08:57:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T12:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=9072"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:06","slug":"its-labor-day-get-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2014\/09\/its-labor-day-get-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Labor Day.  Get to Work."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not everyone is sitting around the pool today, grilling the last sausages of the summer.\u00a0 Here are some of the people who work on Labor Day and their average pay (the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/ocwage.htm\">mean wage for all occupations<\/a> in the U.S. in 2013 was $22.33 per hour, or $44,640 a year):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Fast food cooks &#8211; $18,870<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Amusement park workers &#8211; $20,310<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Waiters and waitresses &#8211; $20,880<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Lifeguards &#8211; $20,890<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Supermarket cashiers &#8211; $23,450<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Telemarketers &#8211; $25,830<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Nursing assistants &#8211; $26,020<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Truck drivers &#8211; $36,970<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Radio and television broadcast technicians &#8211; $41,630<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Prison guards &#8211; $44,350<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Waste treatment plant operators &#8211; $45,070<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Police officers &#8211; $58,720<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Power plant operators &#8211; $67,230<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Registered nurses &#8211; $68,910<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Lawyers &#8211; $131,990<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Major league baseball players &#8211; $3,390,000<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Baseball stadium concession workers &#8211; $11,000*<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most of those who work on Labor Day have to work, for their own sake as much as ours.<\/p>\n<p>____________________________<\/p>\n<h5>* <a href=\"http:\/\/therealnews.com\/t2\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=31&amp;Itemid=74&amp;jumival=10457\">Data<\/a> for Giants stadium in San Fransisco, one of the most expensive U.S. cities to live in.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not everyone is sitting around the pool today, grilling the last sausages of the summer.\u00a0 Here are some of the people who work on Labor Day and their average pay (the mean wage for all occupations in the U.S. in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2014\/09\/its-labor-day-get-to-work\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9072"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9089,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9072\/revisions\/9089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}