Woeful wage: Mexican cowboy works from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. for $800 a month – Montana From: missoulian.com
Tagged: MontanaPosted on: July 10th, 2008
The man herding sheep on Mount Jumbo makes a little more than $2 an hour, by one estimate.
Enrique Marquez Banda, a cowboy from Mexico, said the $800 a month he earns isn’t much by his country’s standards either, but it’s hard to find work down there. Marquez herds some 600 sheep as part of the Missoula Parks and Recreation Department’s noxious weed control program.”*
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