An employer pays what is prevailing in the community for the skills involved.
I would certainly expect a surgeon to get paid more than a janitor...even it the janitor has 9 kids.
Their biggest problem is that vocational classes have been gone from the high schools for a number of years and it is starting to hit home with employers.
More & more kids are being pushed into loans to attend college and they still do not have a marketable skill. They then also demand an unreasonable wage to start their ‘career’, because they have the loans to pay, their new BMW payment & the cost of their high end apartment. Don’t forget the clothes, jewelry & the entertainment costs, either. They think they are entitled to a starting salary of over $90,000 a year and they don’t understand why they cannot get that.
Meanwhile, there are over 238,000 known manufacturing jobs going begging in the USA because the companies cannot find persons with a high school diploma, a GED, or who can clearly write & can read simple information.
I don’t know where the plumbers, carpenters, auto mechanics and other tradesmen ware going to come from. IF Obama thinks he can assign all those jobs to the illegals, he is in for a surprise. I will roof my own house before I allow an illegal on my property.
Meanwhile, employers have no obligation to bankrupt themselves to ‘pay a living wage’ like San Francisco thinks is necessry. The living wag crowd and the union crowd doesn’t get it.
IF I am starting a company from scratch with my own funds & efforts, I will NOT hire & pay for more useless bodies just to have them off the unemployment rolls. Telling me to pay $6000 a year in Obamacare costs per employee will make me lay off enough people to escape this cost & to put in more time myself. I can use that $6000 per employee in my own bank account and I know the value of every dollar—I own the business!!!!
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