{"id":18695,"date":"2013-07-17T01:17:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T05:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=18695"},"modified":"2026-04-21T22:13:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T03:13:06","slug":"mcdonalds-tells-workers-to-budget-by-getting-a-second-job-and-turning-off-their-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2013\/07\/mcdonalds-tells-workers-to-budget-by-getting-a-second-job-and-turning-off-their-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonalds Tells Workers To Budget By Getting A Second Job And Turning Off Their Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By<\/span>\u00a0Annie-Rose Strasser<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

McDonalds has partnered with Visa to<\/span>\u00a0launch a website<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0to help its low-wage workers making an average $8.25 an hour to budget. But while the site is clearly meant to illustrate that McDonalds workers should be able to live on their meager wages, it actually underscores exactly how hard it is for a low-paid fast food worker to get by.<\/span><\/p>\n

The site includes a sample \u201c<\/span>budget journal<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u201d for McDonalds\u2019 employees that offers a laughably inaccurate view of what it\u2019s like to budget on a minimum wage job. Not only does the budget leave a spot open for \u201csecond job,\u201d it also gives wholly unreasonable estimates for employees\u2019 costs: $20 a month for health care, $0 for heating, and $600 a month for rent. It does not include any budgeted money for food or clothing.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Basically every facet of this budget is unachievable. For an uninsured person to independently buy health care, he or she must shell out on average<\/span>\u00a0$215 a month<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u2014 just for an individual plan. While some full-time McDonald\u2019s workers do qualify for the company\u2019s<\/span>\u00a0$14 a week health plan<\/span><\/a><\/span>, that offer caps coverage at $10,000 a year and is often insufficient. If that person wants to eat, \u201cmoderate\u201d spending will run them $32 a week for themselves, and $867 a month to feed a family of four. And if a fast food worker is living in a city? Well, New York City rents just reached an average of<\/span>\u00a0$3,000 a month.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The sample budget is also available<\/span>\u00a0in Spanish<\/span><\/a><\/span>. On another section of the site, it<\/span>\u00a0concludes<\/span><\/a><\/span>, \u201cYou can have almost anything you want as long as you plan ahead and save for it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Neither McDonalds nor Visa returned requests for comment by the time of publication.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last year, Bloomberg News found that it would take the average McDonalds employee<\/span>\u00a0one million hours of work<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0to earn as much money as the company\u2019s CEO. This immense wage disparity in the fast food industry has sparked a series of<\/span>\u00a0protests and walk-outs<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0by low-wage workers working at fast food chains around the country \u2014 in<\/span>\u00a0New York<\/span><\/a><\/span>,\u00a0Chicago<\/span><\/a><\/span>,\u00a0Washington<\/span><\/a><\/span>, y<\/span>\u00a0Seattle<\/span><\/a><\/span>, to name a few cities, workers from chains including KFC, McDonalds, Burger King, and Taco Bell have spoken publicly about the need for serious wage increases across the industry.<\/span><\/p>\n

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