Do you ever feel like you're being kept at your current position because your boss is getting cheap labor out of you?
Yes, I feel like my boss thinks he owns me and can just rent me out whenever he feels like it.
But then I wonder how he justifies promoting and paying someone else more who does less work?  It doesn't make any sense. 
I know, but my livelihood depends on my salary, so I cant just tell him how I feel to his face or I might get fired.
I'm only making minimum wage, so there's no lower I can go, but I know I'm being underpaid when I take over the office for my boss when he goes on vacation.
a modest and decent standard of living.
Legislation State laws.
In the United States, different states are able to set their own minimum wages independent of the federal government. When the state and federal minimum wage differ the higher wage prevails. there were 29 states with a minimum wage higher than the federal minimum. Washington has the highest state minimum wage at $11.50 per hour. A number of states have also in recent years enacted state preemption laws, which restrict local community rights, and bar local governments from setting
alone feel only for you.
But, but may I trust you
you, you with a light heart?
You, you know you can rely on me,
you do know how good for you I am!
Yes, yes, yes, yes you do know how good for you I am!
And, and if in the distance,
it seems to me like your picture,
then, then I wish so much
that we were united in love.
Yes,