Seems so simple yet some can't grasp that concept.
“Jack up the hourly rate and you’ll find more employees. Ultimately, that is what it comes down to.”
Seems so simple yet some can’t grasp that concept.
We grasp the concept. Depending on the business and what they are selling, and their profit margins in that business, they may not be able to just jack up the hourly rate paid to employees.
In our market the real minimum wage has gone up by 35% in the last 18 months. Some industries just don’t offer the unit value to hire laborers at $32/hour.
Mr. GG2 was talking to some manager in a store and he said they were paying $21 per hour and couldn’t get anybody to apply. Then last week he was at the planning office in the rural county we are getting ready to move to and they found out he was a semi retired contractor and offered him a good job in the county maintenance dept. They can’t get anybody. It pays well.
My best friend and I were discussing this at lunch recently and we couldn’t discard the theory that perhaps more people have died than we all know about. Insurance companies and motto downs are reporting shocking increases in death rates.