Nobody is paying these days except a few tech fields and dangerous trades. Once those are oversaturated, everyone working will be broke.
I do engineering for buildings and salaries have only increased a few thousand in my field over the last 2 decades. While costs of basic necessities have doubled or trippled. The billing rates increased but mostly go to the owners/overhead and not workers.
I don’t even understand how young people survive these days and it’s really no surprise why so many drop out. Make the salaries make sense and people will work again...
In my neck of the woods a certified forklift driver can work almost anywhere for $35/hour. Unskilled warehouse labor starts around $21.50.