salaries

The AJC published an article Sat. on the lack of affordable housing in Atlanta, which included a list of salaries of several occupations. It listed the salary for fast-food cooks as $13.42/hour. At the restaurant chain I work for, most of the cooks make between $6.40 and $7.50 /hour. The beginning pay for the top cooks is $9.01/hour but none of the cooks I've met here make that much.