Woeful wage: Mexican cowboy works from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. for $800 a month - Montana

Posted on: July 10th, 2008
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“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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