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.
I want to move to Washington and work there because they have the highest minimum wage at $11.50 per hour. 
I used to live in Seattle.  The minimum wage there is $15.  Hopefully Maryland starts to move in that direction.
Living wage
A living wage is the minimum income necessary for a worker to meet their basic needs. Needs are defined to include food, housing, and other essential needs such as clothing. The goal of a living wage is to allow a worker to afford a basic but decent standard of living. Due to the flexible nature of the term "needs", there is not one universally accepted measure of what a living wage is and as such it varies by location and household type.
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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!
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it seems to me like your picture,
then, then I wish so much
that we were united in love.
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