Jesse Watters Very Upset CA Fast Food Workers Earn $20 An Hour

According to Celebrity Net Worth, Watters earns $5 million a year for talking on Fox News, where truth-telling is optional. Realtor.com reported that he bought a “swanky New Jersey mansion” for nearly $2.8 million last year. Yet, he thinks it’s “crazy” to ensure that McDonald’s and other fast food workers are now guaranteed an income that only gets them closer to a living wage.

$21.24 an hour is needed for a livable wage in California and more than twice that if you have a child, The Sacramento Bee reported in December. That does not include money to afford unpaid time off work, money for savings, investments or medical emergencies.

Yet on a recent PBD podcast, Watters called it “crazy” that California just raised the minimum pay for fast food workers to $20/hr. Watters is so out of touch with regular folks, he estimated that $20 an hour translates to “six figures” a year. When informed by host Patrick Bet-David that it was really only $40,000, Watters still thought that outrageous. Because a spouse or partner working there would make it $100,000 a year!

Even after Bet-David corrected the amount to $80,000, Watters still complained, “that’s crazy.” As if he’d ever do his cushy job for even ten times that amount.

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