Pete. Your right except up here there are very jobs paying that.
here that seems to be the new norm
my son was making 15.78 part time slinging cheese this summer 7 hour days 5 days a week , his friends not going to college were taking jobs as operators on machines at 19 an hour starting with LOTS of overtime opportunities and the money incentives are there to work lots of overtime beyond just time and a half , when you get past so many days in a row it becomes double time.
it is so bad here that we have a gas station than now closes at 6pm it used to be open till midnight then backed to 10pm then 9 and then the second shift all quit for factory jobs.
if you could hold steady work all through 2020 even if it was slinging burgers or cashier at a gas station you know how to show up , someone else has a job for you now.