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Actually, I have my own [tiny] business... I've hired and fired, in the past, as an agent of sorts, for others, in a somewhat larger business. (commercial fishing, with myself as operator of shrimp/bottomfish trawler, owned by another. One of several the same man owned) Fishing, and the way shares are determined, don't quite fit with your "questions". It's a world you most likely know nothing directly of.

Business decisions take many forms, in that biz...

I understand how fish boat owner/operator's are said to have some of the most stressful occupations, in the country, since I was an operator for many years, and a # 1 guy on a few other boats, previous to that.
My own small boat, isn't near as stressful as things can be for guys trying to meet loan payments, crewshare settlements, and all the rest, while raising a family. It's no wonder some of them can be real "screamers", hehe...

Presently self-employed, using my own, much smaller boat, without "payroll" employees. Not even 1099...
Just small-time hook & line, no more bottom trawl gear that weighs tons...no more crew to deal with (hurrah!), no more big stress.

Peddle my catch to white -tablecloth type restaraunts, some in a couple of swap meet/farmers markets. Also run a small pollination service (if I could call it that, with only 14 hives presently of any real use). The hives are in the avocado orchards, as we speak, though it's too early yet, where I'm at, for them to be needed yet.

I also own a piece of another business, entirely different than catching fish, or wrangling honeybees. Helped start "part of" it, actually.
In that business, very few are paid "minumum" wage, but some are.
Only one is paid the amount I offered as the going wage for casual labor in the Bay Area.

The day-to-day operation of the various phases, I'm not reponsible for, though I do lend a hand regularly, in most aspects---except for hiring, or directly firing.

At times, I've even filled in temporarily, as bookkeeper (which isn't my strong point) using "QuickBooks", to reconcile cash bank deposits, make billing invoices, print checks to pay bills owed, etc...when the majority partner was on much needed vacation time.
But that's the easy part. Actually ending up with a profit, is much harder. As it is right now, that business is barely holding it's own, (if that!) due to decisions made the majority partner... I was in opposition to the course of action he chose, thinking it wouldn't work. I have been proven correct. As far as the cost of doing business, the ebb & flow of cash---
I glance over the amounts, occasionaly, what & roughly how much, is going where. We are behind on our bills, have been ever since the bad move, that I was against. It's hamstrung the entire outfit...
But I don't look to employeees to take paycuts to balance the books!!!

This business (in which I'm only a minor partner) employs almost thirty people, but only a few of them, fulltime. Payroll taxes are real bitch (to pay) but the computer program, when currently updated, does the "figuring".
All one needs do, is enter the proper amounts, in the proper places. So much for your assuptions. Incorrect, as usual.
Your list of questions, to determine what I may "know", or not know, are worthless, except to your own pathetic ego. That rock you tell me to crawl under? How 'bout you getting it up side your fat head, instead?

I certainly hope you screw up, and encounter personally, in the flesh, those whom have no patience for your rudeness. I'd get in your face, high volume, in a hot second, and you'd have to deal with it, {or shrink back}. Too bad it most likely won't be me...
I used to enjoy a good barroom brawl. Won most of 'em, hehehe, but then again I'm smart enough to have avoided the few whom really are "bad-a$$es", instead of the ones who just thought they were.