One’s cost of living doesn’t decrease because their paycheck happens to come from the University of Minnesota.
I work in Minneapolis but make far below the city’s minimum wage of $14.25 an hour for businesses with 100 or more employees. Why? Simply because I work for the University of Minnesota.
As I discovered after moving here as a first-year student in the fall, state law allows the University to ignore local minimum wage requirements. One’s cost of living doesn’t decrease because their paycheck happens to come from the University of Minnesota.
The minimum wages for on-campus student employees sits at $10.33 per hour. For that amount, students on the Twin Cities campus can work as receptionists, maintain buildings, or work in other assorted positions. I currently work in the dining hall two floors below my dorm room which can pay as little as $12 per hour – which is also what I make. It’s undoubtedly convenient. The University exploits this convenience to pay me and my fellow coworkers far less than we need and deserve.
The average rent in Minneapolis is about $1,635 for an apartment that is about 800 square feet, according to RentCafe, and with inflation and a tight market, rents will likely rise. This concerns me as someone who will be living off-campus next year.
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