$7.25
Texas Minimum Wage for 2016, 2017. Texas' state minimum wage rate is $7.25 per hour. This is the same as the current Federal Minimum Wage rate. The minimum wage applies to most employees in Texas, with limited exceptions including tipped employees, some student workers, and other exempt occupations.
$15/hr for that man. He used to earn $1700/day.
That picture was shown in Houston chronicles titled: "Hotels, 'man camps' feel impact of crude's price slide" in July 2015. William gator Smith was laud off in 2014.
Why show it now? Ah, editor is good.
Interestingly people just assume the story is fake because of the typo of hourly rate. In fact, the picture is real, the caption is real (the number is wrong), but it happened in 2015.
Llewellyn石油设备商店关门。
一名石油工人在切萨皮克水力压裂法作业厂。
焊接工人在卡恩斯市东部铺设管道。
6台抽油机在科图拉工作。
石油工人站在钻塔上的钻铤旁。
39岁的WILLIAM ‘‘GATOR‘‘ SMITH和20岁的BRIAN MASON在旅馆外聊天。Smith曾经是油田承包商，每天赚700美元，但去年万圣节时被裁员，为了赚取家用，SMITH变成了建筑工人，每小时5美元工资，他的妻子回家做药房医生。
53岁的SANDY JAIME在Double C度假村清洁房间。该度假村的顾客大多是大油田公司，油价降低也导致房价下降。
日落时分，卡里索斯普林斯街车辆稀少。
MELISSA RIOS抱着5岁的女儿MARLEY RIOS参加复活节烤肉会。“我们破产了，现在连汽车都加不起油了，”MELISSA RIOS说。
MEURER在床上痛苦地躺着，MEURER在一场摩托车事故中受伤，并将失去自2014年12月以来的第3份工作。“我上辈子一定是做了什么坏事。”MEURER说。