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Originally Posted by GirlySports
Sure but some of that is misguided.
2. By raising the minimum wage, the number of jobs at minimum wage increases.
- You raise a job from $10 to $15 but you don't raise the already $15 job so it now gets lumped in. Cashiers, office cleaning, even secretaries were never minimum wage, hence they never got tipped. But now they are. I know cleaners in the 80s that absolutely made a killing, mostly immigrants. Made 3x sometimes 5x the minimum wage at the time.
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This no doubt true in some sectors, but from my experience, it caused wage increase across the board. I had several minimum wage employees and some that proved more value and I paid more than minimum wage. When the first wage hike happened, the employees who were making more than minimum wage demanded an increase proportional to the minimum wage increase.