Devoted to Help Desk and Technical Support personnel and applications

Money, it's a gas.  Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash...  (Thank you Pink Floyd)

Don’t get too excited about the federal minimum wage increase if you work on a help desk.  Since the average Help Desk Salary in the US is about $43,767 a year for help desk analysts, and $79,315  for help desk managers, the minimum wage hike is not going to have a direct impact. (See http://www.salary.com for more information about average income by job and state.)  Workers who make less than $7.25 an hour are most likely to see a pay increase, since they are within a few dollars of the minimum wage.  Many employers may increase wages below $7.25 an hour in order to maintain their internal wage structure.  I found this link about the minimum wage increase very helpful: http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/issueguides_minwage_minwagefaq 
 

  In case you need a little cheering up now, click the money picture above to download your own Happy Money Screen Saver!   You might need that pay increase though.  It costs $19.95 to download it...