It's no great shakes, though. The minimum wage in the US is a magnificent $7.25 per hour. If you worked a 40 hour week, all year, no days off, that’d be the grand total of $15k a year.
It's a long way from the base wage here in Australia. Here's a comparison, in Australia dollars, per hour:
Australia: $18.70
France: $13.65
UK: $12.80
Germany: $12.30
US: $9.25
Russia: $1