What is work actually worth?
Everything is getting more expensive, only the salary stays the same.
The thesis seems to confirm a video on TikTok.
When looking for a job, the salary is a decisive factor for many applicants.
Current studies show that people long for security on the one hand, but want more salary on the other and are willing to change jobs to do so.
If you are currently looking for a new job, you are probably browsing through many job advertisements.
They often differ in terms of content.
Some only contain the requirements for the applicants and the benefits of the company.
In others, the possible earnings are also given directly.
A TikToker presents such an ad in his video and says that the salary has not changed in recent years.
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A starting salary like 14 years ago?
This is reported in a video in TikToker.
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TikToker's job ad criticized: "It's supposed to be a joke."
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According to TikToker, the job advertisement is exactly the same as it was 14 years ago.
Same company, same salary: $15 to $16 an hour.
"That was my salary 14 years ago," says the American TikToker, "nobody wants to work for that".
According to his own statements, he worked for the company in 2009 for the salary, but the job advertisement shown in the TikTok video was published in December 2022.
"That's supposed to be a joke," the TikToker makes his displeasure about it clear in the video.
In the comments he gets support for his opinion.
Sharing one's own experiences from the context of work and application on social media platforms is not new: An applicant who was rejected for a job changed the company's opinion with her reaction to the rejection.
She made a video about it on TikTok and thanked Gen Z.
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Job advertisement with a salary from 14 years ago: Users comment numerously
The TikTok video has over 20,000 likes and almost 1,000 comments.
An excerpt from the comments:
User: "I do this for $22 an hour and I feel extremely underpaid."
User: 'Nobody wants to work anymore.'
– "No, nobody wants to work for THE salary."
User: "14 years ago that was a decent starting salary."
User: "Even my local McDonalds now pays around $18."
User: "Consider applying to this position and wasting company time by not responding."
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