Minimum Wage: 10 Funny Tweets About Alabama's Minimum Wage

Alabama is one of the few states in the country that does not have its own minimum wage law. As a result, those living in Alabama must be paid at the federal minimum wage rate, unless their employer opts to pay them more.

While this is a serious subject for the working class, many have taken to Twitter to share their thoughts. Here are some of the funniest tweets about Alabama's minimum wage.

I helped Grams with yard work and she paid me $7 I then told her minimum wage (in Alabama) is $7.25 and she actually gave me a quarter! #Yay

— Anna Kathryn (@annakatmeow) November 27, 2015

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If minimum wage wasn't $7 down south I would be moving to Alabama

— bombmom (@des_tuhnee) July 19, 2015

L.A. Lifts Its Min. Wage to $15. http://t.co/y3plIq0qR5 Why federalism sucks. L.A. legislates like Argentina. Alabama, like medieval lords.

— David Kelland (@bonddude) May 20, 2015

Went from spending $6 on a bottle of water in Vegas to cutting grass in sweet home Alabama for minimum wage #Merica

— Seth Morris (@Seth_Morris10) May 8, 2015

Alabama killing me with the statewide minimum wage though. Like a bump up to 8 dollars could do wonders but no.

— med school (@trillestnerd) April 16, 2015

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Wow y'all I get paid a whole quarter above minimum wage in Alabama #bank #💰💰💰

— happy (@alabamamormon) June 6, 2014

Everyone: "I thought the minimum wage went up?" Me: "You don't actually read the news, do you? No, not in Alabama. We hate the poor here."

— Auntie Mame (@andekral) February 13, 2014

Alabama: our 113-year experiment in low wages and regressive taxes is a libertarian's paradise!

— Matt Osborne (@OsborneInk) February 25, 2014

Minimum wage will go up and Alabama server wages will remain exactly where they've been for over 20 years: $2.13/hr.

— BetterThanYesterday (@_TallAndTatted) May 27, 2014

@Wally_Callahan @Labor411 There will be NO stampede to Alabama to work for dirt wages.

— joseph stokesbary (@josephstokesbar) March 5, 2014

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