I’ve run into this problem twice. I can’t possibly pay enough to make up for the benefits they lose by accepting a job from me.
The way to increase employment is to stop paying people “benefits.” But I understand why those benefits are being paid. As a society, what do we want? Giving people some benefit, like discounted health insurance, or a subsidy, also makes them a slave to that benefit with zero possibility of ever growing. To accept the loss by taking a job, would be like swimming away from a raft the in ocean for the possible promise of eventually making landfall. Most people are not risk takers.
Stop ALL immigration and wages will go up steadily and drastically. It the only way.