McProfit: $8.25 a hour vs CEO’s $8.75m a year

Tyree Johnson scrubs himself with a bar of soap in a McDonald’s bathroom and puts on fresh deodorant.

McProfit: $8.25 a hour vs CEO’s $8.75m a year

He stashes his toiletries in a Kenneth Cole bag — a gift from his mother, who works the counter at Macy’s — and hops on an El train. His destination: another McDonald’s.

Johnson isn’t one of Chicago’s many homeless people who seek shelter in fast-food joints. He’s a McDonald’s employee, at both restaurants — one in the Loop, the other about a mile away in the shadow of Holy Name Cathedral.

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