Never worked at McDonalds or any fast food place but I have owned and operated my share of retail stores and I would venture that managing a McDonalds would be a pain in the ass and stressful. Extremely high traffic operations, large amounts of small cash transactions, dealing with 30+ teenagers or barely speaking English immigrants, huge employee turnover, dealing with food in general, ordering, huge corporate structure to follow etc.
Here in Vegas they advertise $45k - $60k starting plus benefits and bonuses for an experienced fast food manager. I sure as hell know I wouldnt want to do it.
That being said I think $30k for an affiliate manager is insulting as well. Unless its a brand new operation and they have options or big incentive bonuses based on performance. You either have to go with a high starting base and small bonuses or a small base and larger bonuses.
