> Now, fellers can earn as little as $18 an hour. So they get paid a little more than someone serving burgers in California but have to deal with much more remote, skilled, difficult, dangerous work. I'm getting really tired of articles posing this sort of thing as a "labor shortage".
I'm going to take an unpopular opinion here, but with the increases in minimum wage in California to $15/hr by 2020 - driven by increased cost of living - these jobs will be paying slightly more than minimum wage. No doubt, the answer is "increase the logging wage", which, in reality, will happen across all skilled occupations which are now suddenly just above the minwage line. And what will be the result? Increased…
California minimum wage is $10.50, it is supposed to go to $15 in 2022. What the heck that has to do with loggers in Oregon in 2017 I have no idea.