$30/hr, $45/hr overtime

Yea… that’s how time & a half works…

And $30/hr doesn’t even seem all that high for a high-cost-of-living area like NY.
And yet it’s almost double the minimum wage.
I read this as minimum wage needing to be higher, not snow shoveling wages needing to be lower.
Absolutely. My point was more that even though it doesn’t seem much for NY it’s still way better than doing minimum wage. Anyone doing minimum wage would love to make that much because the minimum wage is so low.