Skilled labor and/or specialty labor is typically 3-4 times the minimum wage. You pay someone $15 an hour to flip burgers, you can expect to pay $50-60 an hour for top tier labor. That’s how our economy works.
Well, you won’t be paying burger flippers that for long.
That’s also how the economy works.
Can I move to your labor market? Around here, starting wages for non-skilled laborers are around $8 to $12/hr, and for skilled labor, around $20.